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Month: January 2023

Doris Lessing's pen name 'Jane Somers'

Pen Names: Doris Lessing to Jane Somers

11th January 202326th January 2023 Staff Writer

When you ask yourself why a writer might choose to use a pen name, what springs to mind? Perhaps you think of the famous female writers of the nineteenth century, like the Brontë sisters, for whom publishing under their real names would have risked not being published at all. Or you think of it as […]

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