Pen Name

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"