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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
This is not unusual. George Eliot, the writer of Silas Marner, is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. She adopted a male pen name to avoid the stereotype of the types of books that were written by female authors.
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That was the 19th C.
It was unusual by the latter 20th C. Though the publisher insisted on Carolyn Janice Cherry using initials and an h to C. J. Cherryh! Plenty of famous female first name Authors by 1980s. Dodie Smith, Helen MacInnes, Anne McCaffery and Ursula Le Guin (Earthsea was a school text in Ireland before Harry Potter was written). Even Enid Blyton's Famous Five, or Five Finder Outers as much read by boys. But why the insistence on a 2nd fake initial?
Publisher misogyny.