List of women's pseudonyms and variant names
A-C
- Hazel Adair (pseudonym for Hazel Addis)
- Anonymous (for many women writers)
- E. L. Arch (pseudonym for Rachel Ruth Cosgrove Payes)
- A. M. Barnard (pseudonym for Louisa May Alcott)
- Currer Bell (pseudonym for Charlotte Brontë)
- Ellis Bell (pseudonym for Emily Brontë)
- Lisa Ben (pseudonym for Edith Eyde)
- Louky Bersianik (pseudonym for Lucile Durand)
- L. D. Biagi (pseudonym for Lottie F. Ambrose)
- Edith Bland (alternate name for Edith Nesbit, better known as E. Nesbit)
- Marjorie Bowen (pseud. for Gabrielle M.V. Long)
- B. M. Bower (pseudonym for Mrs. Bertha Sinclair)
- B. L. Bowhay (variant name for Bertha L. Bowhay)
- Ann Bridge (pseudonym for Lady Mary Dolling O'Malley)
- Philip Briggs (pseudonym for Phyllis Briggs)
- Pat A. Brisco (variant name for Patricia A. Brisco)
- D. K. Broster (variant name for Dorothy K. Broster)
- Elory Burke (online pseudonym for Alicia E. Goranson)
- Margaret Campbell (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
- Judith Cape (pseudonym for Kathleen P. Page)
- Jayge Carr (pseudonym for Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger)
- Margaret Storm Chapman (variant name of Margaret Storm Jameson)
- C. J. Cherryh (pseudonym for Caroline Janice Cherry)
- Joan Conquest (pseudonym for Mrs. Leonard Cooke)
- Mrs. George Corbett (variant name for Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett)
- Howard L. Cory (pseudonym for Julie Ann Jardine)
- March Cost (pseudonym for Margaret Morrison)
- David Craigie (pseudonym for Dorothy M. Craigie)
- Cristabel (pseud. for Christine Abrahamsen)
- Victoria Cross (pseudonym for Vivian Cory)
- Christopher Crowfield (pseudonym for Harriet Beecher Stowe)
- M. A. Cummings (variant name for Monette A. Cummings)
D-F
- Max Daniels (pseudonym for Roberta Gellis)
- Jack Danvers (pseudonym for Camille Caseleyr)
- Jorge De Reyna (pseudonym for Diane Ditzer De Reyna)
- Richard Dehan (pseud.; see Graves)
- Mrs. A. M. Diehl (Alice M. Diehl)
- Maxim Donne (pseudonym for Madelaine Elizabeth Duke)
- Sonya Dorman (variant name for Sonya Dorman Hess)
- M. Barnard Eldershaw (joint pseudonym for Flora Eldershaw and May Barnard)
- Helen Edmonds (variant name for Helen Woods, better known as Anna Kavan)
- Explorabilis (pseudonym for Eliza F. Haywood)
- Mrs. James C. Fitfield (variant or pseudonym for Effie Merriman)
- D. C. Fontana (variant name for Dorothy C. Fontana)
G-J
- Jane Gaskell (pseud for Jane Lynch)
- Hal Godfrey (pseud for Charlotte O'Conner Eccles)
- I. F. Grant (variant name for Isabel F. Grant)
- Ernest Hamilton (pseudonym for Judith Merril)
- Louise Hathaway (pseudonym for Maria Metlova)
- Lee Hoffman (variant name for Shirley Lee Hoffman)
- J. Hunter Holly (pseudonym for Joan Carol Holly)
- Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin (variant name for Inez Haynes Gillmore)
- Ralph Iron (pseudonym for Olive Schreiner)
- M. Storm Jameson (pseudonym for M. Chapman)
- Cyril Judd (joint pseudonym for Judith Merril and C. M. Kornbluth)
K-M
- Gael Kathryns (pseudonym for Gael Baudino)
- Anna Kavan (pseudonym for Helen Woods Edmonds)
- John Kendell (pseudonym for Margaret Maud Brash)
- Susan Alice Kerby (psuedonym for Elizabeth Burton)
- Aino Krohn (birth name of Aino Kallas)
- William Lamb (pseudonym for Margaret Storm Jameson)
- Jane Lane (pseudonym for Elaine Dakers)
- Simon Lang (pseudonym for Darlene Hartman)
- Louise Lawrence (pseudonym for Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle)
- Margery Lawrence (pseudonym for A.E. Towle)
- Lilian Leslie (pseudonym for Violet Lilian Perkins)
- A. M. Lightner (variant name for Alice Martha Lightner Hopf)
- A. Reynolds Long (variant name for Amelia Reynolds Long)
- Lilith Lorraine (pseudonym for Mary M. Wright)
- Frank Lin (pseudonym for Gertrude Franklin Atherton)
- Adam Lukens (pseudonym for Diane Ditzer De Reyna)
- Lester Lurgan (pseudonym for Mabel W. Knowles)
- L. T. Meade (variant name for Elizabeth L. T. Meade)
- Ella Merchant (see Alice Ilgenfritz Jones)
- Max Merriwell (pseudonym for Pat Murphy)
- C. L. Moore (variant name for Catherine Lucille Moore)
- V. T. Murray (pseudonym for Violet T. Murray)
N-P
- Cary Neeper (pseudonym for Carolyn Neeper)
- Andrew North (pseudonym for Alice Mary Norton, better knwon as Andre Norton)
- Andre Norton (pseudonym for Alice Mary Norton)
- Alice Nunn (pseudonym for Alison Mackirdy)
- Lawrence O'Donnell (pseudonym for Catherine Lucille Moore in collaboration with Henry Kuttner)
- Bertha Oulot (pseudonym for Bertha von Suttner)
- Lewis Padgett (pseudonym for Catherine Lucille Moore)
- Severna Park (pseudonym for Suzanne Feldman)
- Robert Paye (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
- William Penmare (pseud. for Mavis Nisot)
- George Preedy (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
Q-S
- H. M. Raleigh (variant name for Hilary M. Raleigh)
- E. J. Rath (pseudonym for Edith Rathbone Brainerd)
- Kit Reed (pseudonym for Lillian Craig Reed)
- Helen Reeves (variant name for Helen Mathers Reeves
- Noelle Roger (pseudonym for Helene Pittard; Hélène Pittard; Helénè Pittard)
- Rose Sharon (pseudonym for Judith Merril)
- Joseph Shearing (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
- Raccoona Sheldon (pseudonym for Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon, best known as James Tiptree, Jr.
- Sigfridur Skaldaspillir (pseudonym for Mildred Downey Broxon)
- Gordon Stairs (pseudonym for Mary Austin)
- Francis Stevens (pseudonym for Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
- Aino Suonio (pseudonym for Aino Kallas)
T-V
- Eric Thorstein (pseudonym for Judith Merril)
- James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym for Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon)
- John Winch (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
W-Z
- Cherry Wilder (pseudonym for Cherry Barbara Grimm)
- W. R. Wren (pseudonym for Martha Kay Renfro)