It is telling that Rowell chose to disguise her sex by signing her published papers inconspicuously as T. E. Rowell, but this simple disguise still caused issues. In 1961 she submitted a paper to the Zoological Society of London Journal. The society was impressed and invited T. E. Rowell to come down from Cambridge and give a talk to the fellows; but when it was discovered that T. E. Rowell was, in fact, a woman, there was some embarrassment. She was able to give the lecture but not to sit with the fellows for dinner because of her sex. The solution was to ask her to sit behind a curtain, out
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