I dunno whether Vernon Lee was a man or not, but it is pretty clear she made the intentional choice to go by the name "Vernon Lee" as a writer
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Mme Bovary was so corrupted by novels that she wanted to live in a novel herself. She never learned of her success, however.
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But she's on the consumer side, of course, so not really a relevant example. And I don't remember what the book says about the authors of what she read.
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George Eliot in fact makes it pretty clear why she had the pen name when she wrote her scathing essay about "lady novelists" - novels written by women were disdained as clichéd and commercial and she didn't want her work lumped in with them
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That's absolutely a result of societal sexism and internalized misogyny Eliot was expressing the sentiment people on the a Internet now name as "Not Like Other Girls" But it was nonetheless clearly a personal choice and not something she was forced into
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Yup. Mrs Gaskell, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Clara Bow...certainly sexism posed obstacles and women's literature was disparage then (as now) but most of the women in this own names project did not live in times when women were forbidden access to publishing.
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