Free for All Friday: Female Writers with Male Pseudonyms

Once upon a time in the world of literature, women authors did not command the same respect as their male counterparts. Some got around this handicap by taking male pen names. Writers today still disguise their gender to fit into a certain niche market. See if you can guess the identities of the female authors who wrote under the names below. Answers follow.

                  Pen Name

1. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
2. James Tiptee, Jr.
3. J. D. Robb
4. George Eliot
5. Andy Stack
6. A. M. Barnard
7. Andre Norton
8. Andy Stack
9. George Sand 
10. John Sedge
    

                                   

                  Identity

1. Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte
2. Alice Bradley Sheldon
3. Nora Roberts
4. Mary Ann Evans
5. Louisa May Alcott
   
6. Ann Rule
   
7. Alice Mary Norton
8. Ann Rule
9. Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
10. Pearl S Buck