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[Anonymous No.16602010]

Why did they have to publish under boy names when Jane Austen and Mary Shelley published under girl names over a generation before them?

[Anonymous No.16602018]

they were schizos

[Anonymous No.16602044]

>>16602010
Maybe Instead of patriarchy being a linear constant systems of subjection are re-emergent and reinhabited by living human beings and the freedoms of one moment are inconstant like your pathetic erection.

[Anonymous No.16602051]

>>16602010
Austen and Shelley published anonymously at first.

Charlotte Brontë explains their rationale in her introduction to the second edition of Wuthering Heights:

>We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied us, now suddenly acquired strength and consistency: it took the character of a resolve. We agreed to arrange a small selection of our poems, and, if possible, to get them printed. Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because—without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called ‘feminine’—we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise.

[Anonymous No.16602712]

>>16602010
Interesting picture. Does this mean that Emily was fair-haired in her younger days?

[Anonymous No.16602770]

>>16602051
Why do I write like her?