8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms.

Historically, women faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.

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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms

While the literary industry is arguably still prejudiced in favor of male writers, historically, women faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.

^{Catherine Dent (TheCollector)}

"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter."

Margaret Mead died #OTD in 1978.

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‘Celebrity’ ‘Authors’ - individual quotes

Maybe children’s books tend to be recommended by ‘adults’, promoted by people and newspapers with a financial interest and bought by their parents based on the author name? Just a thought and maybe something to discourage (not the book buying of course).

theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/…

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Jamie Oliver pulls children’s book from shelves after criticism for ‘stereotyping’ Indigenous Australians

Billy and the Epic Escape to be withdrawn worldwide after First Nations groups say fantasy novel trivialises complex and painful histories

^{Kelly Burke (The Guardian)}

#OTD in 1797.

Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel First Impressions (later re-titled Pride and Prejudice); Cadell declines.

gutenberg.org/ebooks/42671

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Settling accounts

Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings.

by Rebecca Wilkin via @aeonmag

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#OTD in 1892.

Ida B. Wells began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation, in 2020.

gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975

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