The world of business in the past it has been a universe historically dominated by men. But the impulse of persevering women was opening that gap that today gives rise to a more balanced universe, but still with difficulties and challenges for women. entrepreneurs. But these difficulties can be conquered. This has been demonstrated by the history of successful women writers.
10 famous women writers
Here are ten cases in which women writers managed to get in the way of the male oligarchy to succeed.
1. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
She was innovative in her time, the author of a book that is considered by many to be one of the first feminist novels, and at her time was highly controversial due to this attitude: jane eyre. Although it was well received by readers, she lived for a time under anonymity, writing it under the pen name Currel Bell. So much so that it was even thought that the writer William Makepeace Thackeray -a great defender of the work- was the author of it. The work was published in 1847 and today the novel is considered a classic of literature.
2. Amandine Dupin (1804-1876)
She was known in the literary world as George Sand. Her start in letters coincided with her divorce and a new look: George wore men’s clothing to move freely around Paris and to be allowed to enter public spaces reserved for men and where women entered. it was something forbidden. Although she did not stop wearing feminine clothes, she only wore them in some social gatherings.
3. Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814-1873)
One of the most important playwrights of the time who was ahead of her time in claiming the independence and decision-making capacity of women. She had a liberal education and, after refusing to marry in Cuba, she traveled with her family to Europe, where she came into contact with the romantic literature of the moment, represented by Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand and Lord Byron.
4. Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885)
She complained that there was not a moment when she would not be reminded that she should put down her pen and dedicate herself to mending her husband’s socks and a famous phrase that transcended time was: “Men look at women of letters worse than they would look at the devil”. She was a Spanish poet and novelist who wrote in Galician -a controversial choice for the time- as Castilian. She is considered among the great poets of 19th century Spanish literature.
5. Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921)
One of the most enlightened women who advocated for women’s education, despite her social position – she was a descendant of a noble family – was relegated due to her status as a woman.
6. Catherine Albert (1869-1966)
She sought to challenge the patterns and initially published under her real name. Her first creation was the infanticide (1898) and through it he got up close to the conservatism and sexism that characterized the publishing world of his time. That did not stop her as a writer, but she decided to use the pseudonym Víctor Catalá, in order to hide her true identity and not fall victim to the merciless criticism of her contemporaries.
7. Colette (1873-1954)
This French writer married the novelist Henry Gauthier-Villars at a very young age, who quickly became aware of the talent of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. He encouraged her to write a series of novels under the Claudine series, but which he signed under her name. She later separated from Henry and left anonymity.
8. Maria Moliner (1900-1981)
She would go down in history for creating one of the best dictionaries of the Spanish language, but the Academy of Language left her out when she was a candidate to occupy a chair of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in 1972. It took her 15 years to write the Dictionary of use of Spanish that has two volumes and about 3,000 pages in total, under the objective of creating a dictionary that would allow going from the idea to the expression.
Moliner carried out her task in a world in which it was not common for women to participate in intellectual work and was criticized for this activity robbing the family of time.
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9. Laura Albert (1965 -?)
It is a unique story, for some branded as a scam. His popularity was woven under the pseudonym JT Leroy, with whom he published his novel in 1999. Sarah, with great success and returning him to fame. Almost six years later it was discovered that it was a 41-year-old woman.
She confessed that she created this character of an unhappy young writer – who finds the perfect refuge in literature – because she was convinced that nobody would want to read the books of a forty-something woman.
10. Joanne Rowling (1965 -?)
It will surely sound more familiar to you if we tell you the name of JK Rowling. Exact! the writer of Harry Potter. She had to use a more masculine name because her publisher had doubts that children and adolescents would want to buy a book written by a woman. And we are not talking about the beginning of the century.