Very interesting! I learned much about the challenges women have faced publishing their work and receiving credit for it. I am always amazed how ignorant or naive I am about so many things. How revealing is that quote from Robert Southey! I think we have a good many men that still agree with Southey - I think we call them morons. I like pseudonyms. My grandfather wrote and published well over a hundred books during his long career as a wildlife and children's author. He wrote mystery novels and war stories to bolster morale during WWII, but he refused to use his own name, as he did not want to be identified with anything except wildlife and children's literature. Some of the pseudonyms he invented were funny! I should have asked him where he came up with some of these names. Keep up the great herstory lessons!
Very interesting! I learned much about the challenges women have faced publishing their work and receiving credit for it. I am always amazed how ignorant or naive I am about so many things. How revealing is that quote from Robert Southey! I think we have a good many men that still agree with Southey - I think we call them morons. I like pseudonyms. My grandfather wrote and published well over a hundred books during his long career as a wildlife and children's author. He wrote mystery novels and war stories to bolster morale during WWII, but he refused to use his own name, as he did not want to be identified with anything except wildlife and children's literature. Some of the pseudonyms he invented were funny! I should have asked him where he came up with some of these names. Keep up the great herstory lessons!