Pen NamesWriters publish under other names for a variety of reasons. Some use literary aliases in order to fit in while others employ them to stand out from the crowd. Pen Names traces the history of pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day through forty novelists, poets and playwrights. These include famous pseudonymous writers such as George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and