Pen Names by McHugh, Kirsty

Pen Names

Your favorite author may not be who they say they are. The stories behind why an author...
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Author: Kirsty McHugh
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Language: English
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Pen Names by McHugh, Kirsty

Pen Names

$282.21

Pen Names

$282.21
Author: Kirsty McHugh
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Your favorite author may not be who they say they are.

The stories behind why an author chose their literary alias can be just as compelling as the works that they wrote.

Writers publish under pen names for a variety of reasons. Some use them to fit in while others employ them to stand out from the crowd. Pen Names traces the history of literary aliases 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 Bront?), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 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. Pen Names also explores the wide range of motivations for taking on new names, including gender, the use of pseudonyms for different genres, and writing as a team. Collectively, the stories in this book give the audience unusual insights into authors, publishers, and readers over the last two hundred years.



Author: Kirsty McHugh, Ian Scott
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Published: 03/22/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781851246496

About the Author
Kirsty McHugh is a curator at the National Library of Scotland. Ian Scott is a curator at the National Library of Scotland.

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