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 Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois (November 6, 1813 — October 27, 1888) was an American sculptor and philanthropist. In 1854 she was co-founder of New York's Nursery and Child's Hospital, and was the hospital's director. Mary Ann Delafield was born in London, the daughter of an American father, John Delafield, and his English wife, Mary Roberts Delafield. Her father, a banker, was in England during the War of 1812, and Mary Ann moved to New York City after her mother died in 1819. She attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1825. During the Panic of 1837, DuBois