PSEUDONYMS

Though human beings have forever been taking other names for professional purposes, the most familiar literary precedents being nineteenth-century women who assumed male names to make their writing publicly acceptable (e.g., George Eliot, George Sand), only in modern times, as far as I can tell, have pseudonyms functioned to identify alternative artistic identities. If the name Vernon Duke identified the light music of Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–69), so the names Patrick Ireland and ...