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• Horace

  Sand, George, 1804-1876

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  Amantine Aurore Dupin: published in 1840; her first novel--"Indiana"--was published in 1832; popular in her lifetime, she is recognized as one of the most notable writers of her era

• Jane Eyre

  Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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  Charlotte Brontë: published in 1847 under Currer Bell, perhaps in response to a letter she received after soliciting Poet Laureate Robert Southey's thoughts on a collection of her poetry, which said, "Literature cannot be the business of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wuthering Heights

  Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

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  Emily Brontë: published in 1847 under Ellis Bell; Emily died in 1848; her name did not appear on her book until 1850

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849

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  Anne Brontë: published in 1848 under Acton Bell; her first novel--"Agnes Grey"--was published with her sisters' first novels in 1847; Anne's identity was revealed in 1848 but she died in 1849 and her own sister Charlotte tried to stop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Middlemarch

  Eliot, George, 1819-1880

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  Mary Ann Evans: published in 1871-2; her first novel--"Adam Bede"--was published in 1859; "Middlemarch" was voted the best British novel of all time

• Behind a Mask

  the Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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  Louisa May Alcott: published in 1866 under A. M. Barnard; while Alcott published Little Women in 1868 under her own name, any of her "unladylike" novels were published under A. M. Barnard, which wasn't discovered until the 1940s by a rare…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary Poppins

  80th Anniversary Collection

  Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996

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  Pamela Lyndon Travers: published in 1934

• Out of Africa

  Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962

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  Karen Blixen: published in 1937; her first book--"Seven Gothic Tales"--was published in 1934

• The Street

  Petry, Ann, 1908-1997

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  Ann Petry: published in 1946 under Arnold Petri; was the first African American woman to sell over 1 million copies

• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

  Tiptree, James, Jr., 1915-1987

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  Alice Bradley Sheldon, who chose to camouflage herself with a male pseudonym because she'd "had too many experiences in [her] life of being the first woman in some damned occupation"; she first published in 1973 with "Ten Thousand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  Rowling, J. K.

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  Joanne Rowling: published in 1997; we all know now that she's a woman, but initially her publisher pushed her to choose the ambiguous initials to "appeal to young male readers who might otherwise skip over books written by women"

• The Cuckoo's Calling

  Galbraith, Robert

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  Joanne Rowling: published in 2013; wonder if her experience w/ publishing Harry Potter made her choose a male pseudonym when she started this series for adults

• City of Dark Magic

  a Novel

  Flyte, Magnus

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  female writing duo Christina Lynch and Meg Howrey, who chose a single male pseudonym "to appeal to both genders" (even though their secret wasn't long a secret and they have plenty of fans); published in 2012

• Reclaim Her Name Project

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  The collection has been chosen by...trawling archives and libraries for books written by women under male pen-names. The covers have been re-designed by a number of female illustrators. All 25 [titles] are now available to download for…Read moreRead more of this annotation