Would you mind showing the passage so I may identify the traits?
Slow, lithargic, hungry, noisy, smelly, rotten, ugly, hideous, and many others. It depends on the zombie, but those are some examples.
it is I think Congress...
1) she wouldn't be able to act. plays at the time only featured male actors (even for female roles)
2) if she wanted to write, she'd probably have to take up a male pseudonym, since her work either wouldn't have been published or would have been rejected from mainstream acceptance during the time