Men don't read women authors–except for Jane Austen
May 29, 2005
A study into reading habits by gender concluded that men generally don’t read books by women–with one understandable exception:
‘Pressed for a preference, many men also found it much more difficult to “like” or “admire” a novel authored by a woman – for them “great” writing was male writing (oh – apart from Jane Austen, of course),’ the report said.
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men probably read female writers in the crime fiction genre, eg: PDJames, Ruth Rendell, Patricia Cornwell, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers.
And science fiction–Andre Norton, for example.
And there’s all those men (and not-quite-men) who read J.K. Rowling–who adopted her pen name because the publishers felt that boys wouldn’t read books written by a woman. Hmm.