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So I’m late to this, but I’m just catching up on the #ReclaimHerName kerfuffle. And, given that Naming And Literature (with a side of gender) is kinda my thing, I obviously have thoughts...
The first thing to say is that, while really well-intentioned, this feels like a decision that was not properly thought through. And if I’d been asked, I’d have advised strongly against it. The reasons why have been given by many many people on twitter today.
It seems to apply a very simplistic model to all of these writers, assuming that they reluctantly published under male pseudonyms to avoid misogynist prejudice, and would have loved to publish under their birth names. So restoring those names = feminist act of reclamation.
imagining george sand rolling in her grave hearing about the #reclaimhername project
"they did what now???"
pen names are chosen names!!!! in this house we respect the nom de plume
