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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 91702, member: 33"]I've seen a lot of those types of attributions, too. (A Mother, etc.) Or sometimes "Mrs. ___" might be the only author given. And Mary Ann Evans used the pen name George Eliot because she wanted her work to be taken seriously. But there were also successful women authors who used their names: Louisa May Alcott, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jane Austen (who started out in late 18th century but also wrote in early 19th), and many others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 91702, member: 33"]I've seen a lot of those types of attributions, too. (A Mother, etc.) Or sometimes "Mrs. ___" might be the only author given. And Mary Ann Evans used the pen name George Eliot because she wanted her work to be taken seriously. But there were also successful women authors who used their names: Louisa May Alcott, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jane Austen (who started out in late 18th century but also wrote in early 19th), and many others.[/QUOTE]
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