Women unwelcome in literature?

Maybe they crossed paths at their London publisher? Germaine de Staël and Jane Austen also shared the curious and uncomfortable situation of combining the status of woman and writer. Jane in virtual anonymity. A discretion dictated by propriety. Germaine in a more combative way. All the while measuring the limits of the exercise: "Lʹaspect de la malveillance fait trembler les femmes", she wrote.