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Pseudandry means (rare) The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym..
It is a case of pseudandry when a woman adopts a man's name; for instance, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterward Dudevant, signed herself George Sand, […]
[…] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name […]
A reprinting from the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung of a list of 279 examples of pseudandry (use of masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym) of chiefly German female writers.
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Pseudandry means (rare) The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym..
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It is a case of pseudandry when a woman adopts a man's name; for instance, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterward Dudevant, signed herself George Sand, […]
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