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Ursula Roberts
Susan Miles was the pen name of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887–1975). Biography She was born at Meerut in India, where her father was in the British military. He was Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Humphrey Wyllie and her mother was Emily Titcomb. Under her own name, she wrote a pamphlet ''The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage'' which was published by the Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1912. As Susan Miles, she published several slim volumes of poetry: ''Dunch'' (1918), ''Annotations'' (1922), ''Little Mirrors'' (1923?), ''The Hares'' (1924), ''News! News!'' (1943?), ''Rainbows'' (1962), ''A Morsel of Gold'' (1962) and ''Epigrams and Jingles'' (1962) as well as the more famous novel in verse ''Lettice Delmer'' (1958, reprinted by Persephone Books in 2002), two other novels (''Blind Men Crossing a Bridge'' (1934) and ''Rabboni'' (1942)) and a biography of her husband, Rev. William Corbett Roberts, ''Portrait of a Parson'' (1955). ''Dunch'' was sufficiently significant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to merge multiple persons into a single identifiable author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's real identity may be known only to the publisher or may become common knowledge. Etymology The French-language phrase is occasionally still seen as a synonym for the English term "pen name", which is a "back-translation" and originated in England rather than France. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in ''The King's English'' state that the term ''nom de plume'' evolv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |