pseudandry

pseudandry

English

Etymology

pseudo- (“false”) +‎ -andry (“man”)

Noun

pseudandry (uncountable)

1. (rare) The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym.
   • 1873, The National Teacher, volume 3, page 253:

     It is a case of pseudandry when a woman adopts a man's name; for instance, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterward Dudevant, signed herself George Sand, […]

   • 1930, The New York Times Book Review, volume 2, page 35:

     […] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name […]

   • 1951, Archer Taylor, ‎Fredric John Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma, page 275:

     A reprinting from the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung of a list of 279 examples of pseudandry (use of masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym) of chiefly German female writers.