This week TIME Magazine published their list of the 100 most-read female authors in college classes. And sandwiched between Gloria Anzaldua and Marguerite Duras was a glaring anomaly on the list: Evelyn Waugh. Yes, the Brideshead Revisited author is a familiar fixture on many higher education courses, but a woman HE was not.

While TIME shake off the red face of their mistake and the resulting social media jibes, we've turned our attention to the female authors who've been mistaken for men. Because, while as one Twitter user noted Waugh would "be furious that journalists are still making this mistake," women have a history of passing as male writers and of choosing gender ambiguous names intentionally.

Some of our most beloved writers have used male pen names with a variety of motives, from combatting sexism in the industry as a whole, to breaking into male-dominated genres, and even as a means of totally reinventing themselves with a new persona.

Here are the inspiring stories behind seven famous female authors who've used male pseudonyms.

Famous female authors who used male pseudonyms to challenge convention