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..., the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including Roxana, describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a fool of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up and down through the social spectrum several times...

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... to unravel the tangled web of deception and restore both her father’s reputation and Anita’s inheritance. Isabel Ostrander, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Christopher B. Booth, Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox, and Douglas Grant, was a prolific author of early American crime fiction. In The Crevice she collaborated with coauthor, William J. Burns, who served for th...

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...erous independent local speeches and articles were published all across the country. Initially, many of the articles in opposition were written under pseudonyms, such as Brutus, Centinel, and Federal Farmer. Eventually, famous revolutionary figures such as Patrick Henry came out publicly against the Constitution. They argued that the strong national government proposed by ...

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... over possible repercussions for adversarial stances taken publicly. These and other circumstances could have contributed to the wide- spread use of pseudonyms and pen names. Two names in particular carry great historic significance. First, the name “Haimoeipo” can be linked to Queen Lili uokalani. Two texts reprinted in Buke Mele Lahui and attributed to Haimoeipo als...

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...Attraction in the Thought World (1906) and Practical Mental Influence (1908). Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications - and having written more than 100 books in the...

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... for his western fiction. Faust began in the early twentieth century selling his stories to the pulp magazines, writing in many genres under numerous pseudonyms. He is probably best known as the creator of the character Destry. His novel Destry Rides Again has been filmed several times, most notably the 1939 version starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Also his cha...

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...ters which kept readers of the day in continual suspense until his next appearance. McCulley also wrote mysteries and detective stories using various pseudonyms, including Harrison Strong. (Introduction by Roger Melin)...

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...eb… http://www.drshahid.com.pk Attention Please….. The Disclaimer All characters, incidents, places, scenes, countries, mentioned in the novel are pseudonyms, fictitious and imaginary. Any similarity or resemblances of character, incident scene or place would be just by way of chance and the writer, printer, publisher or distributor would be not be responsible or an...

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...e Words 5 Navigating Society: Manners 6 Self-Improvement: Tuning In 7 Confucius: How a Man Became a Mountain 8 Peace on Earth 9 Hidden Identies: Pseudonyms 11 Me, Myself & I 12 Cry of Dolores 13 Awaiting Autumn 14 Accidentally on Purpose: 29 Things Invented or Discovered by Accident 17 For the Glory of the Write: Miguel de Cervantes 18 Aiming High 19 Comic Inn...

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...r 1799). It was published in 1829 without any of the previous anagrammatic pseudonyms; and whatever were the reasons which had induced him to make his...

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...lle Seraphine Sinet, better known under the name of Carabine,—one of those pseudonyms which famous lorettes take, or which are given to them; a name w...

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...ther royalist chiefs, concealed his real name and title under one of those pseudonyms called “noms de guerre.” This circumstance made the comman- dant...

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...ange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which D’Artagnan had disguised names perhaps il- lustriou... ...ld to make out who Athos, Porthos, and Aramis really were (for under these pseudonyms each of these young men concealed his family name)—Athos in part...