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This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
There are reasons many female writers chose to publish under male pseudonyms. Republishing their books under their female names denies them agency.
Pseudonymous women writers (1,225 P) I. ... Pen name * List of Assamese writers with their pen names ... List of pseudonyms of angling authors; B. Bardic name; A. M ...
This was common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt they would not be taken as seriously by readers as male authors. For example, Mary Ann Evans wrote under the pen name George Eliot; and Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, and Baronne Dudevant, used the pseudonym George Sand.
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.
There are also examples of modern politicians and high-ranking bureaucrats writing under pseudonyms. [15] [16] Some female authors have used male pen names, in particular in the 19th century, when writing was a highly male-dominated profession.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Pseudonymous writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Note: The articles categorized here may be titled with a pseudonym or the real name of the writer.
[2] [3] She was one of a group of women writers who used a male pseudonym. [3] In 1928, after a charge by Lord Birkenhead that women writers were inferior, she wrote in their defence and of her use of a pseudonym.