Anonyms and pseudonyms, English

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• English anonyms and pseudonyms

• A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, or Translated Into the English Language (4 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1882-1888), by Samuel Halkett and John Laing, ed. by Catherine Laing, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
  • Volume 1 (A-E): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (F-N): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (O-Tis): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Tit-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (first series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1885), by William Cushing
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (second series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1888), by William Cushing (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• A Concise Handbook of Ancient and Modern Literature, Issued Either Anonymously, Under Pseudonyms, or Initials (London: The author, 1896), by Frederick Marchmont (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pseudonyms of Authors, Including Anonyms and Initialisms (originally published 1882), by John Edward Haynes
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (first series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1885), by William Cushing
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (second series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1888), by William Cushing (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Literary Character of Men of Genius, Drawn From Their Own Feelings and Confessions (London: F. Warne and Co., 1850), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Geography and Travel-Sketches (New York: Duffield and Company, 1912), by William Sharp, ed. by Elizabeth A. Sharp (HTML at pair.com)
• Some Literary Recollections (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1884), by James Payn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs for our Literary History (2 volumes; New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1868), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, in a Series of Letters From Various Parts of Europe, by William Beckford (Gutenberg text)
• English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863), by Julia Kavanagh
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Glimpses of Authors, by Caroline Ticknor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray, With an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 (condensed edition, 1911), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Thomas Mackay, contrib. by John Murray (Gutenberg text)

• Homes and Haunts of the Wise and Good: or, Visits to Remarkable Places in English History and Literature (Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Desperado Essay-Interviews, by Lidia Vianu (PDF with commentary at mttlc.ro)

• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, or Translated Into the English Language (4 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1882-1888), by Samuel Halkett and John Laing, ed. by Catherine Laing, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
  • Volume 1 (A-E): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (F-N): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (O-Tis): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Tit-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The English Catalogue of Books (partial serial archives)
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• George Borrow and His Circle (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Immortal Memories, by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of George Borrow, by Herbert George Jenkins (Gutenberg text)

• Emily Brontë (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bunyan, by James Anthony Froude (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• English Puritanism and its Leaders: Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by John Tulloch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, by John Bunyan (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Life of John Bunyan, by Edmund Venables (Gutenberg text)
• The Works of John Bunyan, by John Bunyan, ed. by George Offor
  • multiple formats at johnbunyan.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Autobiography (1936), by G. K. Chesterton (text in the UK; NO US ACCESS)
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1943), by Maisie Ward (Gutenberg text)
• Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• Six Major Prophets (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Edwin E. Slosson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Frances Power Cobbe (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Frances Power Cobbe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Baroness Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Baroness Elizabeth Craven
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Among My Books (first series), by James Russell Lowell (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Dryden (from the Dramatic Works, 1882 Paterson edition, volume I), by Walter Scott, ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The Poetical Works of John Dryden, With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes (2 volumes), by John Dryden, ed. by George Gilfillan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• Fielding, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text)
• Henry Fielding: A Memoir, Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records, by G. M. Godden (Gutenberg text)

• Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, by Her Sister, by Maria V. G. Havergal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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