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Unread 01-28-2009, 10:43 PM
Mark Allinson Mark Allinson is offline
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Before you get too excited about the Shakespeare result, Mary, check this one:

Spenser's sonnets:

Female Score: 1137
Male Score: 283

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

VERY female indeed.

But I don't think anyone has claimed that a woman wrote the Amoretti.

Jeffers' writing, as Wendy once said, is very masculine, and the progam confirms this:

Robinson Jeffers

Female Score: 877
Male Score: 1212

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

But what about that great masculinist, sexist pig, Bertie Lawrence:

D.H. Lawrence

Female Score: 1741
Male Score: 1369

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

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