stackyFACTSVictorian misogyny was so thick that publishers couldn't conceive of a woman writing anything intense.
Victorian misogyny was so thick that publishers couldn't conceive of a woman writing anything intense. Charlotte Brontë submitted 'Jane Eyre' under the aggressively masculine pseudonym Currer Bell. Her publishers corresponded with 'Mr. Bell' for over a year. When she finally traveled to London and revealed she was actually a tiny Yorkshire woman, her publisher literally refused to believe her until she showed him his own handwritten letters.
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