What does "authoress" mean?
Authoress: A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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