then, of course, there were many others, including the outrageous lord chesterfield letters that they were quite upset about. >> that's a really good point. because i mentioned that women were not speaking in public at this point. it was also inappropriate for women to use their real names. and judith wrote under pen names until she revealed her identity in "the gleaner" which was also a very gutsy thing to do. the first pen name she used was constantia. and at some point, around 1792, her first essay as constantia appeared in 1790. it was on inequality of the sexes, the first claim of feal equalii -- female equality in public. people then knew who constantia was, so she decide to do write as a man. she called herself mr. gleaner, and she didn't even tell her husband that she was mr. gleaner. and everybody kept trying to figure out who it was. eventually she published an essay that had enough clues or she wrote about something that only he would know about, so he figured out that's who she was. but by the time 1798 came around and she collected those glean heiress isglean gleaner essa