OCR Text |
Show PEN NAMES O FWOMEn! The preference or manv women writers for a male pseudonym ia doubtless a survival of the old superstition su-perstition that to engage In tho task or authorship was "unwomanly" Tho Bronto sisters set tho fashion in an-pearlng an-pearlng as Cuner, Acton and Ellis Hell, respectively. Their example was followed by George Eliot. But Ocorgo Is a name to which the dls-, dls-, tressed lady novelist flics as to n cltv of refuge. We have had George Eger- SS a heferF1,ln,ing' 0cvee Paslon and a host of others. Then; too, there Tsavo been John Oliver Hobbes. Ralph I Iron, Frank Hamel and Frank Danhv On tho other hand,. Olive Madov Hueffer shares with the late WiH Sharp tho distinction of f . fem X disguise, for he was known .?e novel reading nb,,c? ftu tc ccntly as Jane Wnrdle. . |