Pen Names, Kirsty McHugh & Ian Scott

Pen Names, Kirsty McHugh & Ian ScottNew Hardback 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 Bront), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge

are compared with modern pond communities

the Tartars

She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging

Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research

nearly GBP30

in the middle of the night

one plant at a time

from the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the vision of a common Eden cultivated by William Morris

machinery gouges minerals out of its rock

and shows the simmering power that lies in our often hidden daily lives

the sage Confucius finds himself drawn into a battle of wills

This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life’ Nina Mingya Powles