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penwoman|ˈpɛnˌwʊmən|
[f. pen n.2 4 + woman, after penman.]
A woman skilled in the use of the pen; a female writer. (Usually with qualifying adj.)
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xlii. 329 O what a ready penwoman! 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, I am nae great pen-woman, and it is near eleven o'clock o' the night. 1880Disraeli Endym. lix, Mrs. Neuchatel was a fine penwoman; her feelings were her facts, and her ingenious observations of art and nature were her news.
Hence ˈpenwomanship [after penmanship], the practice or art of a penwoman; feminine writing.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. (1783) III. 144 She began again to indulge her favourite pleasures of penwomanship. 1803Southey Lett. (1856) I. 211 Senhora, it is a hand⁓writing of the feminine gender—it is penwomanship. |
