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.
Ann Harriet Hughes left a fourth unfinished work. She also edited Welsh versions of three of the works of the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond and wrote verse in Welsh. She edited the woman's page in the "Welsh Weekly" (1892), "Yr Eryr" (1894–95) "Y Cymro" (1906–07). Ann Harriet Hughes died on 25 April 1910 at Pwllheli. She was buried in the graveyard of the Llanfihangel-y-traethau church. Ann Harriet Hughes Ann Harriet Hughes (1852 – 25 April 1910) was a Welsh language novelist, under the pen-name Gwyneth Vaughan. Ann Harriet Hughes was born at Talsarnau in Merionethshire, the daughter of a miller, and had a