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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist. She has written novels including Cranford and North and South. She also wrote penned biography of Charlotte Brontë and began her writing career using a pseudonym Cotton Mather Mills.
Nora Roberts, an American author of more than 225 romance novels writes as JD Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the UK as Sarah Hardesty. Her notable works include JD Robb In Death Collection Books 1-5.
Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries, Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel. She is best known for Out of Africa and Babette's Feast.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). She wrote under pen name AM Barnard, and her sensation novels for adults focused on passion and revenge.
Joanne Rowling, best known by her pen name JK Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007.
The famous Bronte Sisters have written some of the best Victorian novels. They originally published their works under pseudonyms - Charlotte as Currer, Anne became Acton and Emily became Ellis. The sisters selected Bell as their surname. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights remain the most talked about works.
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. She wrote Indiana - her first published novel which is about a noblewoman.
Alice Bradley Sheldon was born Alice Hastings Bradley - an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 until her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Her famous works include Brightness Falls from the Air, Up the Walls of the World and Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home among others.
Born as Alice Mary Norton, she was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She wrote The Scent of Magic which became hugely popular. (Pic Courtesy: https://andre-norton.com/)
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, and poet of the Victorian era. She wrote 7 novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876).