The Brontes similarly started out publishing as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; while across the channel there was George Sand, though I don't think she was at all successful in concealing her very scandalous private life from her audience by that means.
As late as the 1910s and 20s women authors I've recently been working on were using initials or androgynous middle names - even the author of the prototype bodice-ripper, The Sheik, 50 Shades for the flapper generation, published as EM Hull.
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Re: George Elliot
Date: 2024-01-31 09:53 am (UTC)As late as the 1910s and 20s women authors I've recently been working on were using initials or androgynous middle names - even the author of the prototype bodice-ripper, The Sheik, 50 Shades for the flapper generation, published as EM Hull.