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NOVELISTS’ PEN-NAMES.

Several well-known novelists use only part of their name on the titles pages of their books. Anthony Hope’s real name in Anthony Hope Hawkins; Keble Howard’s is J, Keble Bell; F. Anstey, the author of “Vice Versa,” is known to the rate collector as Thomas Anstey Guthrie; and Athol Forbes is really the Bev. Athol Phillips.

Woman writers are very fond of assuming a manly name. Two famous instances in England are George Eliot and John Oliver Hobbes; and in France, Georges Sand. But today we have Frank Dauby, who is Mrs Frankau; Curtis Yorke, who is Sirs Richmond Lee; Ralph Iron, who is Olive Schreiner; and Edward Garrett, who is Mrs Mayo. Reverend gentlemen seem to have a liking for hiding their identity.

Morice Gerard is the Rev J. Jes,sop Teague; George A. Birmingham is Canon Hannay; Ralph Connor, of Winnipeg, now a chaplain at the Front, is the Rev. Charles W. Gordon; and John Ackworth is the Rev F. R. Smith. Maxim Gorky is not the Russian novelist’s name. He is, to his family, Alexei Maiinovitch Peskov. Pierre Loti and Anatole France are, respectively, Julien Vioud and Anatole Thihanlt ; whilst the late Maarten Maartens substituted this excellent pen-name for his own impossible one—J. M. Van der Poorten Schwartz. Reedless to say, he was a Dutchman.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19170123.2.19

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1665, 23 January 1917, Page 4

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NOVELISTS’ PEN-NAMES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1665, 23 January 1917, Page 4

NOVELISTS’ PEN-NAMES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1665, 23 January 1917, Page 4

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