Her prolific output of works was matched by her popularity, becoming more celebrated in Britain than such French male writers as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. In 1831, when she was still an ...

For centuries, women writers have challenged norms, reshaped narratives and transformed literature with their powerful voices ...

George Sand (1804-1876) and Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), who published as AM Barnard, are among the many other female writers who adopted male or gender-neutral pen names in the middle of the ...

Because, while as one Twitter user noted Waugh would "be furious that journalists are still making this mistake," women have a history of passing as male writers and of choosing gender ambiguous ...