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Mar
From about 1750 English women began to make inroads into the literary marketplace, but writing did not become a recognizable profession for women until the 1840’s. Even when women started writing, they were not allowed to own their work, They had to work for someone else or they had to acquire a pen name for the novels they wrote. This happened because people would not buy books written by women in the typical patriarchal society of the eighteenth century. The famous author of ‘Little Women’, Louisa May Alcott used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under whom she wrote…