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pseudandry

pseudandry

English

Noun

pseudandry (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym.
    • 1873, The National Teacher, volume 3, page 253:
      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, []
    • 1930, The New York Times Book Review, volume 2, page 35:
      [] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name []
    • 1951, Archer Taylor, ‎Fredric John Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma, page 275:
      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.