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 Taylor-Hall "Ploughshares", "Shenandoah" and other literary quarterlies, and has been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" and in the book "Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories", edited by Morris A. Grubbs (University Press of Kentucky, 2001). She is the recipient of a PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council. Interview with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall,March 30, 1998.Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Mary Ann Taylor-Hall Mary Ann Taylor-Hall is an American fiction writer and poet. She is the author of two novels,