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Show oo PSEUDONYMS OF WOMEN WRITERS I The pieference of many women writers for a male pseudonym is doubtless a survival of the old super-station super-station that to engage In the task of authorship was "unwomanly " The Bronte sisters set tho fashion in ap pearlng as Currcr. Acton and Ellis Bell respectlvel Their example was followed by George Eliot But George is a name to which the distressed lady novelist files as to a city of refuge We have had George Eger-ton, Eger-ton, George Fleming, George Paston and a host of others Then, too, there have been John Oliver Hobbes, Ralph Iron, Frank Hamel and Frank Danby On the other hand, Oliver Madox Hueffer shares with the late William Sharp the distinction of feminine disguise, dis-guise, for ho was known to the novel reading public until quito recently as Jane Wardle. London Chronicle ' "l"UL' " 4 |