Pen Names
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2025
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
9781851246496 (ISBN)
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
9781851246496 (ISBN)
An engaging exploration of the stories behind forty famous pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Writers publish under other names for a variety of reasons. Some use literary aliases in order to fit in while others employ them to stand out from the crowd.
This book traces the history of pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day through forty novelists, poets and playwrights. These include famous pseudonymous writers such as George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and George Orwell (Eric Blair), crime writers such as Josephine Tey and Nicci French, and those lesser-known writers whose real identities have been obscured behind their literary aliases.
The book also explores the wide range of motivations for taking on new names, including gender, the use of noms de plume for different genres, or even when writing as a team. Collectively, the stories in this book give us unusual insights into authors, publishers and readers over the last 200 years.
Writers publish under other names for a variety of reasons. Some use literary aliases in order to fit in while others employ them to stand out from the crowd.
This book traces the history of pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day through forty novelists, poets and playwrights. These include famous pseudonymous writers such as George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and George Orwell (Eric Blair), crime writers such as Josephine Tey and Nicci French, and those lesser-known writers whose real identities have been obscured behind their literary aliases.
The book also explores the wide range of motivations for taking on new names, including gender, the use of noms de plume for different genres, or even when writing as a team. Collectively, the stories in this book give us unusual insights into authors, publishers and readers over the last 200 years.
Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott are curators at the National Library of Scotland.
Introduction
Pen Names
David Lyndsay
Boz
Currer Bell
George Eliot
Lewis Carroll
Fiona Macleod
Saki
Frank Richards
Rebecca West
E.M. Delafield
C.S. Forester
Radclyffe Hall
Jean Rhys
Mary Westmacott
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
George Orwell
P.L. Travers
Josephine Tey
Christine Strathern
Nat Karta
John Wyndham
Anthony Burgess
John le Carré
Victoria Lucas
James Herriot
Mick Norman
Dan Kavanagh
Emma Blair
Jane Somers
M.C. Beaton
Barbara Vine
Rahila Khan
Iain M. Banks
A.L. Kennedy
Nicci French
Lee Child
Dreda Say Mitchell
E.L. James
Robert Galbraith
T.L. Huchu
Notes
Further reading
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 118 x 184 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781851246496 / 9781851246496 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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