So interesting, Linda! I knew Edith Wharton was "blue blooded" but that was the absolute extent of it. Fascinating reading. Here is something that I did try to find out but had no success with. My grandmother told me that her mother (my great grandmother) Nallie Sexton Doak, who was the first female business owner in her hometown of Riverside, CA, and who owned the Loring Block across from the Mission Inn and employed 25 women to make clothing - also wrote stories ... UNDER A MAN'S NAME - and published many in the Saturday Evening Post. My grandmother was the youngest of 3 daughters and was born in 1901 so my guess for the time period would be 1905-1915 (?). Nallie also loved math and took my grandmother's homework from her so she could do it, and she designed and made all the dress patterns herself. After her husband died, she also kept his barbershop and 2 other smaller ones in the area going by hiring men with barbering skills to be the "shop owners" while she was the real owner. So Nallie wasn't the name on these Saturday Evening Post stories, a male name was, but it is ... unknown.