Volume 1

Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing.

  • Halkett, Samuel, 1814-1871.
Date:
1926-[1962]
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Credit: Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALMAYER’S folly ; the story of an Eastern river. By Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski]. Fcap 8vo. Pp. 256. London, 1904 ALMEGRO ; a poem, in five cantos. [By Emma Roberts]. Post 8vo. Pp. 156. [Bodl.]. London, 1819 ALMERIA; or, parental advice: a didactic poem addressed to the daughters of Great Britain and Ire¬ land. By a friend of the sex [Mrs -Cutts]. 4to. [Brit. Mus.] London,1775 ALMIDA ; a tragedy, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By a lady [Mrs Dorothea Celisia, nee Mallet]. Post 8vo. Pp. 66. [Mon. Rev. xliv., p. 150 ; Canib. Univ. Lib.] London, 1771 Almida is an adaptation of Voltaire’s “ Tancrede.” ALMOND (an) for a parrat, or Cutbert Curry - Knaues almes. Fit for the knaue Martin, and the rest of those impudent beggers that can not be content to stay their stomakes with a benefice, but they will needes breake their fastes with our Bishops. Rimarum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle reader) you catch not the hecket with laughing. [By Thomas Nash.] No pagination. [Pierce’s Marprelate Tracts, pp. 268, 333.] [1589?] Imprinted at a place, not farre from a place, by the assignes of Signior Some-body, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Trouble- Knaue Street, at the signe of the Standish. B. L. ALMORAN and Hamet: an oriental tale. [By John Hawkesworth, LL.D.] 2 vols. Fcap 8vo. [B>. N. B., vol. 25, p. 204.] London, 1761 ALMOST a heroine. By the author of Charles Auchester [Elizabeth Sarah Sheppard]. 3 vols.- Pt 8vo. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1859 ALMOST ; or, crooked ways [a tale]. By Anna Lisle [Annabella Crawford]. 8vo. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1857 ALMOST persuaded. By a clergyman’s wife [Mrs Frances E. G. Carey-Brock, ne'e Baynes]. 8vo. [Brit. Mus.] London [c. 1856] ALMYNA; or, the Arabian vow: a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market by Her Majesty’s servants. [By Mrs Mary de la Riviere Manley.] 4to. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1707 ALNWICK Castle ; with other poems. [By Fitz Greene Halleck.] 8vo. [Brit. Mus.] New York, 1827 A. L. O. E.’S [Charlotte Maria Tucker’s] Sunday picture-book ; illustrating the life of the Lord Christ, in a series of short poems. 4to. London, 1871 A. L. O. E., i.e., A Lady Of England. ALONE. By Marion Harland [Mary Virginia Hawes, later Mrs Terhune.] 8vo. Pp. 315. London, 1889 ALONE among the Zulus. By a plain woman [Charlotte Barter]. The nar¬ rative of a journey [1855] through the Zulu country, South Africa. 8vo. Pp. 184. [Bodll]. London, N.D. [1866] ALONE in London. By Hesba Stretton [Sarah Smith], 8vo. Pp. 192. London [1914] The initials of five sisters, taken in order of age, form the first part of the pseudonym ; while the second is taken from Church Stretton, where they lived. ALONE in the world. By the authoress of The world and the cloister, etc. [Agnes M. Stewart]. Pt 8vo. Pp. xix., 248. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1870 ALONZO ; a tragedy, in five acts : as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. [By John Home.] 8vo. Pp. 86. [D. N. B., vol. 27, p. 238.] London,1773 ALONZO; or the youthful solitair ; a poetic tale. [By John Nott, M.D.] 4to. [London], 1772 ALPHA. [Verses, by Margaret E. M. Jones.] Pt 8vo. [TV. and Q., 17th Sept. 1864.] London, 1841 ALPHA (the), or first principles of the human mind ; a philosophical inquiry into the nature of truth. [By Edward N. Dennys.] 8vo. Pp. xvi., 362. London, 1851 The author originally intended to publish this work under the pseudonym of the fictitious narrator, Ramus Randolph. It is dedicated “to the daughter of Dionysius” [i.e. himself] so that he personifies himself twice in this book. The second edition (1855) bears the author’s name, with a slightly altered title-page. ALPHABET (an) of elegiack groans, upon the truly lamented death of that rare exemplar of youthful piety, John Fortescue of the Inner Temple, Esquire. By E. E. [Edmund Elys]. 4to. [Bibl. Angl. Poet., No. 242.] London, 1654 ALPHABETICAL (an) account of the nobility and gentry which are (or lately were) related unto the several counties of England and Wales, as to their names, titles, and seats. . . . [By R— Blome.] Folio. Privately printed, 1892