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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can think of just as many men as women who use initials. A quick glance at my bookshelves reveals C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, P.G. Wodehouse, C.S. Forester and E.F. Benson. All of whom were men, if I'm not sadly mistaken.
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Using initials isn't a sign that an author is a woman, using initials to hide the fact that they were a woman wouldn't have worked if it was. It used to be true that men would avoid books written by women. I don't think that is true any longer, at least it's not as true as it used to be, but publishers continued to believe that it was.