Why are women writers just starting to be discovered? When we survey literature, we learn about many different writers, yet the vast majority of these writers are men. You rarely hear about the women, but some are anthologized alongside the men, some including: Emily Dickenson, The Bronte Sisters, and Anne Bradstreet. However, in recent times, more women writers and more works are being discovered. After sweeping away old volumes, diary entries, court documents and other things to get a sense of what and how women wrote. During their excavations, they came across works by a woman named Elizabeth Singer Rowe. While researching, it became apparent that his story is particularly interesting due to the great efforts of people later in his life to try to hide his early writing history. After studying about her she became one of the best-known authors of the 18th century. However, to her detriment, she has been classified as a pious poet. This portrayal is ultimately unfair to her talent, as she was much more than a pious poet; she was a talented writer who used that talent to write in many different forms and topics, "Her poetry is highly experimental and remarkably aware of what other writers had done and were doing..." (Backscheider). Rowe began writing at the age of 12 and was published in the Athenian Mercury in the early 1690s. The Athenian Mercury was a periodical to which various people could write to ask for answers to their questions. The peculiarity of this particular periodical was that they accepted questions and answers even from women. This week we received a very ingenious letter from a country lady, wishing to know whether her sex might not send us questions too. as men, to which we answer: Yes, they can, it being our purpose to answer all sorts of questions