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Old 04-29-2013, 03:09 PM   #25
QuantumIguana
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
Did it?
Didn't seem to hurt Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Patricia Wentworth, Ngaio Marsh...
Golden age crime fiction was completely dominated by women (writing as women), and I don't believe that men didn't read them.
And no boys read Enid Blyton growing up?

It really depended on the genre, and it may have been more a matter of what publishers thought about the market. If the publisher insisted that the author disguise their gender, there wasn't much choice but to do so.
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