Pseudonyms

Whilst this useful 'preliminary survey' (in the words of its compilers) is the first Australian publication concerned with literary anonymity the bulk of the entries…

The convict-author Henry Savery (1791-1842) is known as the writer of the first Australian novel, Qtiintus Servinton (1830-1). He was, in addition, our first essayist…

Knight interviews Alan Yates, better known as Carter Brown, the English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.

Martin Boydhad no particular affection for the early novels which he published under the pseudonym 'Martin Mills'. The first two, Love Gods and Brangane…

‘…When Lucy Sussex’s own clever detective work revealed that the pseudonyms of W.W. and Waif Wander belonged to Fortune, an exciting chapter in colonial literary…

Discusses the Horwitz Publications author 'Carter Brown' (Alan Geoffrey Yates), became the bestselling Australian novelists after his books were licensed to American publisher Signet. Argues…

Discusses Gwen Harwood's approach to suburban life and domestic modernity, particularly in her satirical and pseudonymous poems. 'Despite her clear apprehension that, in the world's…

Considers the 'textual and institutional gestures' set in train by John O'Grady's Nino Culotta hoax. 'The point of this essay is neither to condemn the…