last days of a rake

Review: Love and Scandal by Donna Lea Simpson

by Keira 07.09.2011

A lady in Victorian times had little options when it came to acceptable jobs. Writing novels was simply not one of them and certainly not publishing them. That’s why Collette Jardiniere hides her authorship of The Last Days of a Rake behind the pseudonym Collin Jenkins. That is until some trumped-up peacock of a rake [...]

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Charlotte as Currer and Collette as Colin: Why Women Used Male Pseudonyms in the Victorian Era

by Guest Blogger 06.22.2010

by Donna Lea Simpson, guest blogger and author of The Last Days of a Rake and Love and Scandal Today it’s hard to imagine that once, writing was not considered a suitable career or even pastime for women. Jane Austen hid the fact that she wrote, partly because of a need for privacy, but also [...]

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