Reporters speculated that "Rebecca Clarke" was only a pseudonym for Bloch himself, or at least that it could not have been Clarke who wrote these pieces, as the idea that a woman could write such a work was socially inconceivable.
Os críticos especularon con que "Rebecca Clarke" era só un pseudónimo do propio Bloch, ou canto menos que non podía ter sido Clarke a que escribira esas pezas, coa idea de que unha muller puidera escribir unha obra era socialmente inconcibible.