[QUOTE="wavey_gravey"]Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein under a nom de plumeworlock77
Ehh, it was initially publish anonymously, but considering that the first edition had a preface written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelly, and a dedication to her father, William Godwin, they wern't exactly going through great effort to keep her identity secret. From the second edition (just a few years later) and onward it was published under her real name however.
Also I should mention that the first printing was only a few hundred. So out of the millions of copies printed since 1818 there have been approximately 500 that don't bear her name. For whatever that's worth.
All of my favorite books are by male authors. In school I have only read one book by a female author and I thought it was bad. I generally like books written in the 19th century or earlier because of the settings of the books and back then women were stupid.
Writers all change their names to make people want to read their books, not just women
GreySeal9
How many men in the history of literature have used a feminine pen name? I can't think of one off the top of my head. But I can think of plenty of female authors who use masculine pen names to mask the fact that they are women.
It centers around a stereotype. Woman authors tend to be romance authors. I don't mean all they write are romances, its that their books always center around peoples emotions and relationships and tend to be really upbeat, soft , and everything turns out well kinda writing ..... essentially unrealistic.
Well it is a known fact that woman are not being taken as seriously as man in everything they do but one of the fields in which woman were always better off, has been litterature. There are a good many of famous female authors all around the world especially in Anglosaxon countries, mainly England: Jane Austin, Bronte sisters, Virginia Wolf and the more recent ones...
All of my favorite books are by male authors. In school I have only read one book by a female author and I thought it was bad. I generally like books written in the 19th century or earlier because of the settings of the books and back then women were stupid.
All of my favorite books are by male authors. In school I have only read one book by a female author and I thought it was bad. I generally like books written in the 19th century or earlier because of the settings of the books and back then women were stupid.
wavey_gravey
?? Is this a troll post? You can never be sure these days.
It centers around a stereotype. Woman authors tend to be romance authors. I don't mean all they write are romances, its that their books always center around peoples emotions and relationships and tend to be really upbeat, soft , and everything turns out well kinda writing ..... essentially unrealistic. Nonstop-Madness
I am not entirely sure that this is correct if I am honest. Initially I think female authors hid their gender because of prejudice against women, but we are talking a long time ago. Now I think that isn't the case so much. Like I have said already, a lot of authors use pseudonyms not to hide their gender, but to hide their identity. A "nom de plume" can be used for a number of reasons. As for your comments about the themes of books written by women... I suggest you broaden your literature range a little because you are waaaaay off the mark.
All of my favorite books are by male authors. In school I have only read one book by a female author and I thought it was bad. I generally like books written in the 19th century or earlier because of the settings of the books and back then women were stupid.
wavey_gravey
?? Is this a troll post? No its not. How many classic female writers are there? Not many. Women back then were not as educated. I like books set in that time period and most of them were written back then. Back when women weren't as educated.
There's a bias among certain men men that some books are written by women for women. Fact is a lot of men won't give a book with a feminine cover and a female author a chance.
All of my favorite books are by male authors. In school I have only read one book by a female author and I thought it was bad. I generally like books written in the 19th century or earlier because of the settings of the books and back then women were stupid.
MacBoomStick
?? Is this a troll post? No its not. How many classic female writers are there? Not many. Women back then were not as educated. I like books set in that time period and most of them were written back then. Back when women weren't as educated. You are correct, women were not formally educated, however that did not make them "stupid" as for "classic" female writers: Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Louise May Allcot, Mary Shelley (Frankenstein incidentally widely regarded as the first work of science fiction) Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and many others, do you need me to go on?
These are only the authors from the British & American canons of "classic literature"
[QUOTE="Nonstop-Madness"]It centers around a stereotype. Woman authors tend to be romance authors. I don't mean all they write are romances, its that their books always center around peoples emotions and relationships and tend to be really upbeat, soft , and everything turns out well kinda writing ..... essentially unrealistic. wavey_gravey
I am not entirely sure that this is correct if I am honest. Initially I think female authors hid their gender because of prejudice against women, but we are talking a long time ago. Now I think that isn't the case so much. Like I have said already, a lot of authors use pseudonyms not to hide their gender, but to hide their identity. A "nom de plume" can be used for a number of reasons. As for your comments about the themes of books written by women... I suggest you broaden your literature range a little because you are waaaaay off the mark.
Im not saying I agree with it, Im just saying that the stereotype IS present.
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