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Home > Victorian People > Writers > Some Literary Roundups
- Vanity of Authors
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- A look at some eccentricities of noted authors.
- A Century of Female Novelists, by Emily J. Mackintosh
(Peterson's, 1883)
- Madame D'Arblay, Anna Maria Porter, Jane Porter, Mrs. Inchbald, Jane Austen, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Charles Gore, Mrs. Norton, Miss Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot.
- Women in American Literature, by Helen Gray Cone
(Century Magazine, 1890B)
- Women's Noms de Plume, by Dora de Blaquière
(Girl's Own Paper, 1890)
- Pen-names of various authors; Louisa May Alcott once wrote under the name of "Tribulation Periwinkle!"
- Noms de Plume
(Victorian Scrap Album, undated)
- A useful list of pen-names, including such better-known names as "Boz" and "Currer Bell," along with monikers such as Gringo Harry, Stonehenge, Fat Contributor, Minnie Myrtle and Silverpen.
- How Novelists Write for the Press
(The Strand, 1891A)
- Fascimiles of novelists' handwritten manuscripts.
- Literary Households, by Sarah Tytler
(Girl's Own Paper, 1895)
- Mrs. Barbauld; Dr. John Aikin and Lucy Aikin; Jane Porter, Anna Maria Porter, and Sir Robert Ker Porter; Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, and Thomas Day; Ann and Jane Taylor and their brother Isaac.
- Two Pairs of Novelists, by Alexander Japp
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)
- Thomas Hardy, Walter Besant, Edna Lyall, and Mary Ward.
- Reminiscences of Literary Berkshire, by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
(Century Magazine, 1895B)
- A look at the many literary figures who frequented New York's Berkshire area.
- American Authors of Today, by James Ramsay
(Windsor, 1898A)
- The Favourite Quotations of Literary People, by F. Klickmann
(Windsor Magazine, 1900B)
- Some Clerical Novelists, by Charles Macmillan
(Sunday Strand, 1902)
- Charles Kingsley and several other clerical writers.
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