Emily Gerard
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masculine subject-matter like adventure, politics, or science, in which, however, gender issues are often involved.
wrote and published novels, short stories, reviews, and a travel book during the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. Her earliest novels were produced in collaboration with her more prolific younger sister,
. She wrote to please herself, with no anxieties about earnings. Her stories are plot-driven, often structured around some witty or paradoxical idea. Her novels are more nuanced and interesting, dealing with