Pen name accepted by publishers and/or the public. Such is the case of Peru's Clarinda, whose work was published in the early 17th century. More often, women have adopted masculine pen names. This was common in the 19th century, when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt, 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, Baronne Dudevant, used the pseudonym George Sand. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë published under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell respectively.
Mary Ann Hanway Mary Ann Hanway Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of "Journey to the Highlands of Scotland" (1777). Hanway was also the author of "Christabelle, the Maid of Rouen" (1814), in which a woman's father loses their family's fortune, and she joins a nunnery, "Ellinor" (1798), and "Andrew Stuart" (1800). Hanway did not always find the process of writing easy, declaring in the preface to her 1809 novel "Falconbridge Abbey", that "four years it has been procrastinated, from a series of ill health, having laid dormant in my desk