Do you know the real name of these authors who used pen names to hide their gender?
It is hard to believe in 2026 that women who wanted to write often had to use pen names. They knew that people would not take a book written by a woman seriously. Many men would certainly not have read a book written by a woman. Of course, after the books became successful, the truth became known and the reset is history. See if you can tell who was who is this little quiz.
Mary Ann Evans
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Bell Brothers
A. M. Bernard
Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin
Match the books below to the real names of their authors:
- Indiana 2. Little Women 3. Wuthering Heights 4. Middlemarch 5. North and South