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A question of sexing the male author or female author by Rob Hopcott

I wonder if one could detect whether a woman or a man wrote a piece which otherwise gave no indication of the author’s sex?

Perhaps we might imagine a ‘flaming romance’ written from a female point of view might suggest a female writer. But could we be wrong?

If male and female readers bring different mindsets to a piece of writing, perhaps what is written might be interpreted entirely differently, even as if it was a different piece of writing, because of the mindset of the person reading it?

What do you think?