Meanings
- rareuncountableThe use by a female writer of a male pseudonym.
[…] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name […]
1930, The New York Times Book Review, volume 2, page 352 more examples
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, […]
1873, The National Teacher, volume 3, page 253A 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.
1951, Archer Taylor, Fredric John Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma, page 275
Origin
From pseudo- (“false”) + -andry (“man”).
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