Women Who Wrote as Men - A Short Story Collection: The journey for women to be recognised in literature was an ardous path, it began with very talented female authors using a male pen name to become published, this is a collection of those incredible stories by said women,

Written by George Eliot, Vernon Lee and Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw Parker and Christopher Ragland

Today, we are all assured that being ‘ourselves’ is what we can not only strive for but will be accepted as.

That has not always been true. In previous centuries, and even generations, to be a woman was to be second class. Mere chattel to do the bidding and whims of men. Perhaps a minor exception if you were Queen or of high rank but any male in near orbit was assumed to be not your equal, but your better.

But in the history of poetry, plays and stories some of our very finest artistic achievements have been from the brains, hearts and pens of women. Some eventually were published as themselves. As mass distribution of periodicals meant publishers appetite required more stories and a female name might not deter or need to be changed. But not always.

In this volume we discover many who, despite their talents, assumed literary names of men or at best used initials to blur their identities.

George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Vernon Lee are but three in a host of many whose lexicons sparkle, whose narrative drive and gilded talents place these women at the forefront of everyone’s literature.

01 - The Women Who Wrote as Men - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

02 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

03 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

04 - Perilous Play by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

05 - An Irish Problem by Somerville and Ross

06 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

07 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

08 - An Unexpected Fare by Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray

09 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens

10 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton

11 - The Death Mask by H D Everett writing as Theo Parker

12 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton

13 - A Rainy Day by Mary Elizabeth Hawker writing as Lanoe Falconer

14 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

15 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Aug 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545073

George Eliot

George Eliot was the pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, who published seven major novels and several translations during her career. She started her career as a sub-editor for the left-wing journal The Westminster Review, contributing politically charged essays and reviews before turning her attention to novels. Among Eliot’s best-known works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, in which she explores aspects of human psychology, focusing on the rural outsider and the politics of small-town life. Eliot died in 1880.