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A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language, 2nd Edition


Free Download A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language, 2nd Edition edited by T. J. Carty
English | January 1, 2000 | ISBN: 0720123836 | True EPUB | 844 pages | 2.4 MB
It is well known that the author of Alice in Wonderland was the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the name of Lewis Carroll, but how many people know what Louisa May Alcott wrote for an adult audience under the name of A. M. Barnard; that another riverboat pilot used the name Mark Twain before Samuel Langhorne Clemens; that George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) also wrote under the pseudonym Felix Holt; that Doris Lessing published under her maiden name Jane Somers; that Ellis Peters (real name Edith Pargeter) also writes under two other names; or that William Makepeace Thackeray wrote under a host of pseudonyms in numerous Victorian journals?

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