In the 19th century,and many years later, women writers used pen names
Here are some of them:
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
Pen name: George Elliot
Real name: Mary Ann Evans.
Author of : Middlemarch
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience”
Pen name : Currer Bell
Real name : Charlotte Bronte
author of : Jane Eyre
“ "With your feet on the ground you're a bird in flight with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite."
Pen name: P.L. Travers
Real name: Pamela Lyndon
Author of 8 Mary Poppins books
Science fiction writer of books like: The Women Men Don’t See”
Pen name: James Tiptree Jr.
Real name: Alice Bradley Sheldon
Pen name AM Barnard
Real name: Louisa Mae Alcott
The Author of Little Women but also wrote books under a male Pseudonym
Pen name: Harper Lee
Real name: Nelle Harper Lee
The author of the book to : “ To Kill a mockingbird” dropped her first feminine name to make the name more gender neutral
“My courage always RISEs at every attempt to intimidate me.”
- Elizabeth Bennet ( quote from the book Pride and Prejudice)
Real name : Jane Austen
the author of Sense and Sensibility, Northhanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice and many more
published her books anonymously.
Her pen name:
BY A LADY
"I was in my school library and hidden behind the bookshelf on the floor,
there was an old book sticking out. I got curious and took it out.
When I opened it, the last library entry was dated 1930's
The last time a girl held that book was before WW2.
That book was lost until I found it in 1986.
I was so fascinated that I borrowed it.
It was the fist novel I read.
A chance encounter.
An unexpected surprise in the library.
I returned the book but I will never forget how I felt when I found it.
The book was : JANE EYRE
By Charlotte Bronte
Who until know I did not know used the male Pen name:
CURRER BELL"
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