Men writing as women and women writing as men

In this entry I search a little about wmen writing as men and women writing as men

Men approach

Samuel Richardson

Richardson more or less invented the English novel with Pamela, written in the form of letters from a 15-year-old servant girl in the household of country squire Mr B to her anxious parents. Eighteenth-century readers were amazed by the author's knowledge of female emotions and female clothing.

John Cleland

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as "Fanny Hill", is narrated by a naive northern girl who comes to London to seek her fortune. She soon falls into the hands of a top brothel keeper, and good copy for Cleland's pornographic purposes is ensured. After a few dizzy years as a whore Fanny is still the good-hearted girl she was on page one and is rewarded with a happy marriage.

Women approach

The Professor by Charlotte Brontë

Brontë may be known as a great recorder of female experience, but her first completed novel (published posthumously) is narrated by a man. William Crimsworth is a northern lad who becomes a teacher in a girls' school in Brussels. Before he finds love with a pupil-teacher at the school, he has to survive the flirtatious mockery of all those teenage girls.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Wharton's story is told by a nameless young man, who has been sent by his employers to the small town of Starkfield in wintry New England. He is intrigued by the mysterious Ethan, whom he hires as his driver. Thus we get access to the tale of Ethan's passion for Mattie, his wife's cousin. It all ends in a very nasty sledging accident.

These approach give a very interesting point of view about gender types and how do they see the other. I think that is a really good thing to write in this stle since the athor can understand better women problems and have more constructive opinions about gender roles, although there are natral limitation in this approach like that a man do not think in the same way as  a woman