L&T Archive 1998-2003

Women authors

I hope someone can help me with this. Why is it that George Eliot (Mary Anne Hyde?) felt obliged to give herself a male pseudonym but JA, who published earlier, did not?

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Women authors
Appellations
Women writers
The "Bell Brothers"
Moniker? Monica.
Jane Austen and Pen names...
By a Lady
Thank you + loads more questions.
Non-serious literature
Romance & Poetry & the Picaro
Dramatic effect
From Complit to Compsci is just 2 letters
The Professional Woman Writer
Interfering parents
LOL! (nfm)
George Eliot
George Sand