List of women's pseudonyms and variant names

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This is a list of pseudonyms, gender-ambiguous, and variant names used by women authors.

See also: Female and gender-ambiguous names used by men

A

B

  • 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)
  • Fabian Bland (joint pseudonym for E. Nesbit and her husband)
  • 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)
  • Rebecca Brand (pseudonym for Suzy McKee Charnas)
  • 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)

C

  • Claude Cahun (chosen name of Lucy Schwob)
  • 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)
  • E. E. Cuthell (variant name for Edith E. Cuthell)

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)
  • Helen Edmonds (variant name for Helen Woods, better known as Anna Kavan)
  • M. Barnard Eldershaw (joint pseudonym for Flora Eldershaw and May Barnard)
  • George Eliot (pen name for Mary Anne Evans)
  • Jane Emerson (pseudonym for Doris Egan)
  • Explorabilis (pseudonym for Eliza F. Haywood)
  • Mrs. James C. Fifield (variant or pseudonym for Effie Merriman)
  • D. C. Fontana (variant name for Dorothy C. Fontana)
  • Tracey Forbes (female writer on Buffy)
  • C. S. Friedman (variant name for Celia S. Friedman)

G-J

  • Jane Gaskell (pseud for Jane Lynch)
  • Hal Godfrey (pseud for Charlotte O'Conner Eccles)
  • L. A. Graf (joint pseudonym between Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone)
  • I. F. Grant (variant name for Isabel F. Grant)
  • Judith Grossman (variant name for Judith Merril?)
  • Gena Hale (pseudonym for Sheila Kelly)
  • Jessica Hall (pseudonym for Sheila Kelly)
  • Ernest Hamilton (pseudonym for Judith Merril)
  • Louise Hathaway (pseudonym for Maria Metlova)
  • Charles Henneberg (unattributed contributions by Nathalie Henneberg)
  • Nathalie-Charles Henneberg (variant name by Nathalie Henneberg)
  • Jessie Jacquetta Hawkes (variant name for Jacquetta Hawkes)
  • Lee Hoffman (variant name for Shirley Lee Hoffman)
  • H. M. Hoover (female author)[2]
  • J. Hunter Holly (pseudonym for Joan Carol Holly)
  • E. Mayne Hull (variant name for Edna Mayne Hull)
  • Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin (variant name for Inez Haynes Gillmore)
  • Ralph Iron (pseudonym for Olive Schreiner)
  • M. Jaeger (variant name for Muriel Jaeger)
  • M. Storm Jameson (pseudonym for M. Chapman)
  • J. O. Jeppson (variant name for Janet Opal Jeppson)
  • Cyril Judd (joint pseudonym for Judith Merril and C. M. Kornbluth)

K

  • Jean E. Karl (female author with gender-neutral name)[2]
  • Gael Kathryns (pseudonym for Gael Baudino)
  • Anna Kavan (pseudonym for Helen Woods Edmonds)
  • Rebecca Kelly (pseudonym for Sheila Kelly)
  • John Kendell (pseudonym for Margaret Maud Brash)
  • Susan Alice Kerby (psuedonym for Elizabeth Burton)
  • Jessie Douglas Kerruish (female author[2])
  • Lee Killough (variant name for Karen Lee Killough)
  • Lou King-Hall (variant name for Louise Olga Elizabeth King-Hall)
  • Aino Krohn (birth name of Aino Kallas)

L

  • 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, female author[2])
  • 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)
  • A. Reynolds Long (variant name for Amelia Reynolds Long)
  • Adam Lukens (pseudonym for Diane Ditzer De Reyna)
  • Lester Lurgan (pseudonym for Mabel W. Knowles)

M

  • Chris Manheim (female writer on Xena)
  • Helen Mathers (variant name for Helen Mathers Reeves)
  • Julian May (gender-ambiguous name for woman author)
  • Ardath Mayhar (gender-ambiguous name for woman author)
  • L. T. Meade (variant name for Elizabeth L. T. Meade; Elizabeth Thomasina Meade)
  • A. Garland Mears (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Ella Merchant (see Alice Ilgenfritz Jones)
  • Max Merriwell (pseudonym for Pat Murphy)
  • Marlys Millhiser (variant name for Marlys Joy Millhiser)
  • C. L. Moore (variant name for Catherine Lucille Moore)
  • Marcel Moore (pseudonym for Suzanne Malherbe)
  • Raylyn Moore (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Roxanne Morgan (pseudonym for Mary Gentle)
  • V. T. Murray (pseudonym for Violet T. Murray)
  • Merril Mushroom (pseudonym for Meril Harris)

N-P

  • Cary Neeper (pseudonym for Carolyn Neeper)
  • E. Nesbit (variant name for Edith Nesbit; also known as Edith Nesbit Bland)
  • Andrew North (pseudonym for Alice Mary Norton, better known as Andre Norton)
  • Andre Norton (legal name change from Alice Mary Norton)
  • Alice Nunn (pseudonym for Alison Mackirdy)
  • Lawrence O'Donnell (pseudonym for Catherine Lucille Moore in collaboration with Henry Kuttner)
  • H. E. Orcutt (variant name for Harriet E. Orcutt)
  • 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-R

  • 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
  • M. Rickert (variant name for a female author)
  • Willo Davis Roberts (gender-ambiguous name for woman writer[2])
  • Noelle Roger (pseudonym for Helene Pittard; Hélène Pittard; Helénè Pittard)

S

  • M. Saltoun (variant name for Mary Saltoun)
  • J. M. Scott (initialism variant name for Jean M. Scott, woman author)[2]
  • 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.)
  • Wilmar H. Shiras (gender-ambiguous name for woman author, Jane House)
  • A. E. Silas (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • D. N. Sims (variant name for Denise M. Sims)
  • Sigfridur Skaldaspillir (pseudonym for Mildred Downey Broxon)
  • Elizabeth Meade Smith (variant name for Elizabeth L. T. Meade)
  • Gordon Stairs (pseudonym for Mary Austin)
  • Francis Stevens (pseudonym for Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
  • D. E. Stevenson (variant name for Dorothy E. Stevenson)
  • Leslie F. Stone (pseudonym of Mrs. William Silverberg)
  • Adrien Stoutenberg (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Eunice Sudak (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Aino Suonio (pseudonym for Aino Kallas)
  • Jarl Szydow (pseudonym for Mary Vigliante)

T-V

  • Gabriel Tarde (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Allyn Thompson (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Eric Thorstein (pseudonym for Judith Merril)
  • James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym for Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon)
  • F. G. Trafford (pseudonym for Charlotte Eliza Riddell)
  • Meriel Trevor (gender-ambiguous name for woman author[2])
  • Lynn Viehl (pseudonym for Sheila Kelly)
  • S. L. Viehl (pseudonym for Sheila Kelly)
  • Voltaire (pseudonym for Francoise Marie Arouet de Voltaire, woman writer[2])
  • "Two Women of the West" (joint pseudonym for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant)
  • Sydney Van Scyoc (gender-ambiguous name for Sydney Joyce Van Scyoc, woman writer)

W-Z

  • G. McDonald Wallis (variant name for Geraldine McDonald Wallis)
  • John J. Wells (pseudonym for Juanita Coulson)
  • K.D. Wentworth (variant name for Kathy D. Wentworth)
  • Evelyn Whitell (gender-ambiguous name for female author[2])
  • Cherry Wilder (pseudonym for Cherry Barbara Grimm)
  • John Winch (pseudonym for Gabrielle M.V. Long, best known as Marjorie Bowen)
  • Mrs. Henry Wood (legal married name for Ellen Wood)
  • W. R. Wren (pseudonym for Martha Kay Renfro)
  • F. E. Young (variant name for Florence E. Young)
  • Princess Vera Zarovitch (pseudonym for Mary E. Bradley Lane)

References

  • Schlobin, Urania's Daughters
  • Various (books, wikipedia, biographies, fantasticfiction.co.uk, etc.)

Notes

  1. ↑ Sharon Yntema, More than 100 Woman Science Fiction Writers.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Roger Schlobin, Urania's Daughters
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