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This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
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This was common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt they would not be taken as seriously by readers as male authors. For example, Mary Ann Evans wrote under the pen name George Eliot; and Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, and Baronne Dudevant, used the pseudonym George Sand.
There are reasons many female writers chose to publish under male pseudonyms. Republishing their books under their female names denies them agency.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Pseudonymous writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Note: The articles categorized here may be titled with a pseudonym or the real name of the writer.
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The following is a list of female writers in the detective and mystery genres. ... (wrote under pseudonym Genevieve Holden, 1919–2007) Janet Quin-Harkin ...