Are women authors more influential now than ever before?

For women in what is generally considered (still) a man's field, yes... they certainly have made some inroads lately.

Still, if you look at the list of Pulitzer prize winning books, you'll see that for that prize at least, a rather surprising number of women [for the times] won in days of yore, in the 1920s and perhaps earlier, I can't recall now. Check it out.

I looked at the prizes for novels and short stories. There are also categories for poetry and non-fiction that I didn't look at. I will now.

And thanks for the heads-up on it being an anniversary of sorts for George Eliot. She was great, and it's nice to pause and think of her for a bit.

Women's success is measured principally by the fact that we pay little attention to the gender of the author when we buy a book. I suspect that a woman who wanted to write about professional football would sell better by using her initials, and I don't think those looking at romance novels prefer to read one by a man, but competence, not gender is the key. It is about time!

you may desire to remember that interior the 2nd worldwide war, hundreds of ladies held "unconventional" jobs. while adult adult males got here decrease back from war, it became predicted that ladies would get married and stay living house and supply those jobs "decrease back" to the adult adult males. in basic terms to make confident they did in basic terms that, they have been fired or enable flow through "veteran's decision." (you may understand that many women who served weren't seen veterans till 30 years after the war.) As for literary figures, it is puzzling to discover references to the 50's. (Harper Lee and James Tiptree printed interior the 60s). women have been applying male nom de plumes for hundreds of years...Isak Dinesan, George Eliot, George Sands, etc. It became extremely a remember of survival (promoting your e book) than it became attempting to stay out of the spotlight. Any time women (surprisingly people who are not married) do something society thinks could be constrained to adult adult males, their morality, choromsomes, politics and sanity are pronounced as into question. women generally get to learn each and every thing from, "your uterus will atrophy," "your strategies will decay," "those with think of you're a tramp/lesbian (and that i like reconciling those 2), to "no guy will prefer you (!?)." We nevertheless try this with people who make us uncomfortable, we shun, ridicule and revile. we are nevertheless enjoying those video games...with women and with different disenfranchised communities...making up stupid regulations that those in fee do no longer would desire to maintain on with. like the T-blouse says, "Feminism is the unconventional concept that ladies are human beings." nevertheless combating the forged combat.

Ya... I guess. J.K. Rowling is really famous. And Stephanie meyer is too