"Brunette Coleman Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by the poet and writer Philip Larkin. In 1943, towards the end of his time as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name. The style he adopted parodies that of popular writers of contemporary girls' school fiction, but the extent of the stories' homoerotic content suggests they were written primarily for adult male titillation. The Coleman oeuvre consists of a completed novella, ""Trouble at Willow Gables"", set in a girls' boarding school; an incomplete sequel, ""Michaelmas Term at St"
"one million pounds to St Paul's Cathedral, Hexham Abbey and Durham Cathedral. From his mid-teens Larkin ""wrote ceaselessly"", producing both poetry, initially modelled on Eliot and W. H. Auden, and fiction: he wrote five full-length novels, each of which he destroyed shortly after completion. While he was at Oxford University he had a poem published for the first time: ""Ultimatum"" in ""The Listener"". Around this time he developed a pseudonymous alter ego for his prose, Brunette Coleman. Under this name he wrote two novellas, ""Trouble at Willow Gables"" and ""Michaelmas Term at St Brides"" (2002), as well as a supposed"
"Baptist"" and her works were widely praised in black journals for the scientific and philosophical depth of the writing. Her novel, ""Poor Ben: A Story of Real Life"" (1890), was critically acclaimed by her contemporaries and in 1894, she served as a vice president of the Colored Authors' Association. By the 1920s, she and her daughter were living in Chicago, where she listed her occupation as dressmaker. Lucretia Newman Coleman Lucretia Newman Coleman (1854 –?) was an African-American writer born in Canada to a fugitive slave. Fluent at the end of the nineteenth-century, her works were praised by her contemporaries"
"home while awaiting his Finals results. That was the prelude to a busy summer's writing: ""Leaving Oxford was like taking a cork out of a bottle. Writing flooded out of me"", Larkin later told his biographer. Larkin's letter to Iles does not mention a female pseudonym, although the idea of using one had been in his mind for months. The previous March he had begun writing the imagined autobiography of a supposed lady novelist, ""Brunette Coleman"", adapting the name of a well-known contemporary female jazz musician, Blanche Coleman. Larkin tentatively titled the autobiography ""Ante Meridian""; he soon abandoned it, but"
"The pseudonyms veiled the sisters' sex while preserving their initials; thus Charlotte was Currer Bell. ""Bell"" was the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls whom Charlotte later married, and ""Currer"" was the surname of Frances Mary Richardson Currer who had funded their school (and maybe their father). Of the decision to use ""noms de plume"", Charlotte wrote: Although only two copies of the collection of poems were sold, the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first novels, continuing to use their ""noms de plume"" when sending manuscripts to potential publishers. Brontë's first manuscript, ""The Professor"", did"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"each other, while Charlotte was excluded from their privacy. Around this time she had written one of her most famous poems ""No coward soul is mine"", probably as an answer to the violation of her privacy and her own transformation into a published writer. Despite Charlotte's later claim, it was not her last poem. In 1846, the sisters' poems were published in one volume as ""Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell"". The Brontë sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication, preserving their initials: Charlotte was ""Currer Bell"", Emily was ""Ellis Bell"" and Anne was ""Acton Bell"". Charlotte wrote in the"
"Lancashire and Yorkshire during her early life, moving to London at some point after 1901. She did not marry. She died in London on 5 September 1947. Her brother, Herbert William Underdown (born 8 July 1864; Charterhouse; Cambridge (Pemberton) B.A. L.L.M), was a solicitor (Birkbeck Bank Chambers) and a well-known art collector and antiquarian scholar. Emily Underdown Emily Underdown (1863–1947) was an English writer, novelist and poet. She is best known for popularising Dante (1265–1321) and for her children's books. Many of her works are written under the pseudonym Norley Chester, which name appears to have been taken from the"
"Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman (November 13, 1946 – November 22, 2013) was an American poet. She was known as ""the L.A. Blueswoman"" and ""the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles"". Wanda Evans was born in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. She is the eldest of four children. Her parents were George and Lewana (Scott) Evans, who were introduced to one another at church by his aunt. In 1931, her father had relocated to Los Angeles from Little Rock, Arkansas, after the lynching of a young man who was hung from"
"died at the age of 92 years. Lou Lichtveld Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld (November 3, 1903 – October 7, 1996) was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym ""Albert Helman"". He gained notability in 1923 when he published the poetry collection ""De glorende dag "" (The Dawning Day), a milestone in immigrant literature in the Netherlands. He followed it three years later with ""Zuid-Zuid-West"" (South-South-West). In 1931, he published a play based on the third voyage of Willem Barentsz. Lou Lichtveld was born in Paramaribo, Suriname into an elite family. At the age of twelve,"
"Berkman. Feuilleton/serial novels Novels Nick Carter series Non-Nick Carter novels Novellas John R. Coryell John Russell Coryell (1851–1924) was a prolific dime novel author. He wrote under the Nicolas Carter and Bertha M. Clay house pseudonyms, and, like many of his fellow dime novelists under many other pseudonyms, including Tyman Currio, Lillian R. Drayton, Julia Edwards, Geraldine Fleming, Margaret Grant, Barbara Howard, Harry Dubois Milman, Milton Quarterly and Lucy May Russell. Coryell also was an anarchist and close friend of Emma Goldman. He was an early and frequent contributor to Mother Earth (magazine), Goldman's journal, as well as a teacher"
"William Emmette Coleman William Emmette Coleman (June 19, 1843 - April 4, 1909) also known as W. E. Coleman was an American clerk, Orientalist, spiritualist and writer. Coleman was born in Shadwell, Virginia. He was an assistant librarian of Richmond Public Library (1854-1857). He became a spiritualist at age sixteen. He married Wilmot Bouton in 1871, she died in 1882. In 1869 he became assistant chief clerk for General Canby. He was made chief clerk in the Quartermaster office at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1883. Coleman is best remembered for his criticism of Helena Blavatsky and the claims"
"Emily Underdown Emily Underdown (1863–1947) was an English writer, novelist and poet. She is best known for popularising Dante (1265–1321) and for her children's books. Many of her works are written under the pseudonym Norley Chester, which name appears to have been taken from the village of Norley, Cheshire, near the town of Chester. The use of pseudonyms was common with female writers of the time. She also illustrated the book ""The Pageant of The Year: A Garden Record In Verse"". According to ""Chaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras"", Underdown's ""The Gateway to Chaucer"" ""...is"
"May 5, 1947 ""But have I given Him my heart? There must be some holding back, or my difficulties with people wouldn't be as they are. Through long habit & also because of native ego (that is --a desire rampant in me from birth to impress & dominate people) I am weak and unconsciously become of the devil's party by thinking of myself instead of Him."" Emily Coleman Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper. She also wrote a single novel, ""The Shutter of Snow"" (1930), published under the name Emily Holmes Coleman."
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"Lucretia Newman Coleman Lucretia Newman Coleman (1854 –?) was an African-American writer born in Canada to a fugitive slave. Fluent at the end of the nineteenth-century, her works were praised by her contemporaries of the African-American press. Lucretia H. Newman was born in Dresden, Southwestern Ontario, Canada to Nancy D. (née Brown) and William P. Newman. Her father was a runaway slave from Virginia, who was ordained as a Baptist minister after attending Oberlin College in 1842 and 1843. He pastored for a few years at the Union Baptist Church of Cincinnati, making numerous mission trips to Canada. After the"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"by Closset to music. Marie Closset Marie Closset (August 16, 1873 – July 20, 1952) was a Belgian poet. She wrote under the name Jean Dominique. She was born in Brussels and was educated under the system of education developed by Isabelle Gatti de Gamond. She chose to write under a male ""nomme de plume"" so that her work would be judged on its own merits; the name came from a character in a novel by Eugène Fromentin. Her poems were first published in small literary magazines and later in the ""Mercure de France"". She published several collections of poems:"
"Latvia, and Lithuania. [as Alexandria Constantinova Szeman] [as Sherri Szeman] Alexandria Constantinova Szeman Alexandria Constantinova Szeman (born 18 June 1956) is an American author of literary fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, true crime, memoir, and nonfiction. Her poetry and first three books were originally published under the pseudonym Sherri Szeman. Alexandria Constantinova Szeman was born Cheryl Lynn Clemans to Patricia Eileen Donovan Clemans and James Lee Clemans, in Dayton, Ohio. She was adopted by her stepfather Edward Anthony Szeman in 1971 at the age of 15. At that time, Szeman changed her name to Sherri. In 2005, Szeman changed"
"Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard (January 13, 1889 – May 25, 1958) was a Canadian poet, and the first published female poet of the Québec region of Canada. She is also the first woman to have faced literary criticism without using a pseudonym. She was born in Les Escoumins, Québec, and attended various convent schools before taking classes around 1910 at the École d'enseignement secondaire pour les jeunes filles (which became the Collège Marguerite-Bourgeoys in 1926 and borrowed much of its curriculum from Université Laval). She may have studied literature at the University of Montreal. Her first poetry collection, ""Visions gaspésiennes"""
"Lonnie Coleman Lonnie Coleman (1920–1982) was an American novelist and playwright best known for writing the Beulah Land trilogy. He was born William Laurence ""Lonnie"" Coleman August 2, 1920, in Bartow, Georgia. He attended grade and high schools in various cities in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1942 with a B.A. degree. From 1942 to 1946 he was in the U.S. Navy, spending most of his time at sea as gunnery officer and then as first lieutenant on a troop transport which took part in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France,"
"Idora M. Plowman Idora Elizabeth McClellan Plowman Moore (October 31, 1843 - February 26, 1929) was an American author, ""one of the first Alabama writers to recognize the pecuniary aspects of local-color writing."" She wrote using the pen-name Betsy Hamilton. Idora Elizabeth McClellan Plowman was born near Talladega, Alabama, on October 31, 1844. She was the daughter of Gen. William Blount McClellan (1798-1881) and Martha Thompson Roby (1809-1858). Her father traced the lineage of his family to William Wallace, of Scotland. He was a graduate of West Point, and before the Civil War held the office of Brigadier-General, commanding the"
"until 1878. She died in New Orleans in 1880. Her writings consist of numerous sketches, short stories, and poems, principally the latter, all of which appeared in the daily papers of New Orleans under the pseudonym of “Salvia Dale.” Her works have never been collected and published in book form. Her entry in ""Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography"" rates “Motherhood” and “Twilight Shadows” the best of her poems. Alice Dalsheimer Alice Dalsheimer (December 1, 1845 – January 15, 1880) was an American poet. She published in local newspapers under the pseudonym of Salvia Dale. She was born Alice Solomon in"
"Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wonderously beautiful… but mystical rather and enigmatic'. Coleridge published five novels, the best known of those being ""The King with Two Faces"", which earned her £900 in royalties in"
"Coleman poem, ""Bliss"", the first of seven written in the girls' school idiom. As late as 19 October he reported to Amis that ""Brunette is working on a little monograph about girls' school stories"". This is a reference to the putative literary manifesto ""What Are We Writing For"", which became the final Coleman work. Thereafter, Motion records, she disappeared, ""to be mentioned only fleetingly in later accounts of his university life ... She ended up as an occasional comic reminder of lost youth"". The works which Larkin attributed to Brunette Coleman comprise a short piece of supposed autobiography, a complete"
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (); also Charlotte Perkins Stetson (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story ""The Yellow Wallpaper"", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Gilman was born on July 3,"
"1954 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wonderously beautiful… but mystical rather and enigmatic'. Coleridge published five novels, the best known of those being ""The King with Two Faces"", which earned her £900 in royalties"
"Rosalind Brett (author) Lillian Warren, pseudonym Rosalind Brett (fl. 1950s) was a British author who wrote for Mills & Boon romance. As a prolific author of romance novels, she had two other pseudonyms, Kathryn Blair and Celine Conway. At the height of her career, Warren was considered one of publisher's superstars, who set high sales records and a standard for romances published during the 1950s. Joseph McAleer in his book , describes Brett's work as so sexy for the era, that it often had to be ""watered down"". According to McAleer, she is credited by Anne Weale as inventing the"
"Harriet Bates Harriet Bates (pen name, Eleanor Putnam; July 30, 1856 – March 1886) was a 19th-century American author of poetry and novels. Harriet Leonora Vose was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 30, 1856. She was the eldest daughter of Prof. George L. Vose, author of a number of works on civil and railroad engineering. She went to live in Salem, Massachusetts in 1865, remaining for six years. The family then moved temporarily to the West, in search of health for the mother. In that time, she attended a dame school. Her literary pseudonym, ""Eleanor Putnam,"" had been the maiden"
"Because so many of UNB's students, alumni, and professors have produced celebrated poetry, the city of Fredericton has earned the nickname ""Poets' Corner."" Two of Canada's four Confederation Poets – Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman – were educated at UNB, as was Francis Joseph Sherman, along with a number of notable 20th- and 21st-century Canadian writers. In 1947, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled a ""Poet's Corner"" monument in honour of Carman, Roberts, and Sherman. The Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) on the Fredericton campus is one of the research institutes in biomedical engineering in"
"failed to attract pupils. Instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel ""The Professor"" was rejected by publishers, her second novel ""Jane Eyre"" was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles. Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855 of tuberculosis or possibly typhus. Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April"
"Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but"
"Emily Coleman Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper. She also wrote a single novel, ""The Shutter of Snow"" (1930), published under the name Emily Holmes Coleman. This novel, about a woman who spends time in a mental hospital after the birth of her baby, was based on Coleman's own experience of spending time in an insane asylum after contracting puerperal fever and suffering a nervous breakdown. The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable"