![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some beautiful box sets are also being printed and issued to libraries for free.Ģ5 books written by women but known to the public under male names – the most famous in the collection being Mary Ann Evans – whose novel Middlemarch was voted the Best British Novel of All Time ( 2015) These books are available in ebook form and are totally free on their website. In celebration of the 25th year of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (sponsored by Baileys), the organisation are releasing a set of books highlighting the women behind their male pen names and they are doing so for free. One prize organisation is attempting to give women back their name – by finally publishing the works of some male pen-name using writers under their birth names. The fact that a female author is not treated the same as a male author (even today) is quite shocking proof that feminism is still required. So many women past and present have hidden behind a male pseudonym when publishing their writing – famously, in the 1840s, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell and more recently (1990s) Joanne Rowling was told using her initials to mask her gender would ensure better sales at a young male target demographic and later went on to write crime under a male pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. ![]()
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