How to Read Free Books by Women, Finally Released Under Their Real Names

How to Read Free Books by Women, Finally Released Under Their Real Names

There was a long period in our history when women wrote books using male pen names in order to have a shot at getting published. Things have improved since then (though apparently we still need fake male assistants for our requests to be taken seriously), and to celebrate these authors, and giving them credit under their real names, 25 of their books will be released through the Reclaim Her Name collection. Here’s how to find the titles and download them for free.

How to access the Reclaim Her Name collection

Each of the 25 titles below are available to read or download for free through the Baileys website:

  • Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans (pseudonym George Eliot)
  • Marie of the Cabin Club by Ann Petry (Arnold Petri)
  • Indiana by Amantine Aurore Dupin (George Sand)
  • A Phantom Lover by Violet Paget (Vernon Lee)
  • The Life of Martin R. Delany by Frances Rollin Whipper (Frank A. Rollin)
  • Keynotes by Mary Bright (George Egerton)
  • Takekurabe (“Growing Up”) by Natsu Higuchi (Ichiyō Higuchi)
  • Garden of Kama by Violet Nicolson (Laurence Hope)
  • How White Men Assist In Smuggling… by Edith Maude Eaton (Mahlon T. Wing)
  • Attila, My Attila! By Edith Cooper & Katherine Bradley (Michael Field)
  • Ye Game and Playe of Chesse by Alice Dunbar Nelson (Monroe Wright)
  • Painted Clay by Doris Boake Kerr (Capel Boake)
  • For Our Country by Fatemeh Soltan Khanum Farahani (Shahein Farahani)
  • Iras: A Mystery by Henrietta Everett (Theo Douglas)
  • The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Mary Kingsley (Lucas Malet)
  • Atla- Story of a Lost Island by Ann Smith (J Gregory Smith)
  • Twilight by Julia Frankau (Frank Danby)
  • The Silence Of Dean Maitland by Mary Tuttiett (Maxwell Grey)
  • The Head Of Medusa by Julia Constance Fletcher (George Fleming)
  • Some Emotions and a Moral by Pearl Richards (John Oliver Hobbes)
  • Cecilia De Noël by Mary Hawker (Lanoe Falconer)
  • Echoes from Mist-land by Aubertine Woodward Moore (Auber Forestier)
  • Valerie Aylmer by Frances Tiernan (Christian Reid)
  • A Diplomat’s Diary by Julia Cruger (Julien Gordon)
  • The Roadmender by Margaret Fairless Barber (Michael Fairless)

Sure, in a perfect world women wouldn’t have to write under a man’s name to be taken seriously, but at least they’re getting some form of recognition now. Add some of these titles to your quarantine reading list.


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