The following are some of the words most frequently used in connection with books and in cataloguing, with suitable abbreviations. All abbreviations must be used guardedly and with discretion, so that they cannot be confused with other words, and are self-explanatory with the context. For a full list see a useful book, "Author and Printer," by F. Howard Collins (Frowde).
| Pseudonym. | Real Name. |
|---|
| A.L.O.E. | Charlotte M. Tucker |
| Acheta Domestica | L. M. Budgen |
| Ackworth, John | F. R. Smith |
| Adams, Mrs. Leith | Mrs. R. S. de Courcy Laffan |
| Adeler, Max | Charles H. Clark |
| Agnus, Orme | John C. Higginbotham |
| Aimard, Gustave | Olivier Gloux |
| Ainslie, Noel | Edith Lister |
| Alexander, Mrs. | Annie F. Hector |
| Alien | Mrs. L. A. Baker |
| Allen, F. M. | Edmund Downey |
| Amateur Angler, The | Edward Marston |
| Amyand, Arthur | Andrew Haggard |
| Andom, R. | Alfred W. Barrett |
| Angell, Norman | R. Norman A. Lane |
| Annunzio, Gabriele d' | Gaetano Rapagnetto |
| Anstey, F. | Thos. Anstey Guthrie |
| Argles, Mrs. | Mrs. Hungerford |
| Aubrey, Frank | Francis H. Atkinson |
| Audley, John | Mrs. E. M. Davy |
| Aunt Judy | Mrs. Margaret Gatty |
| Aunt Naomi | Gertrude A. Landa |
| Ayscough, John | F. D. Bickerstaffe Drew |
| B., A. K. H. | A. K. H. Boyd |
| B., E. V. | Eleanor V. Boyle |
| Barker, Lady | Lady Broome |
| Basil | Richard Ashe King |
| Bede, Cuthbert | Edward Bradley |
| Belgian Hare, The | Lord Alfred Douglas |
| Bell, Nancy | Mrs. Arthur Bell |
| Belloc, Marie A. | Mrs. Belloc Lowndes |
| Bentzon, Th. | Thérèse Blanc |
| Bickerdyke, John | C. H. Cook |
| Billings, Josh | Henry W. Shaw |
| Bird, Isabella L. | Mrs. I. L. Bishop |
| Birmingham, George A. | James O. Hannay |
| Blackburne, E. Owens | Elizabeth Casey |
| Boldrewood, Rolf | Thos. A. Browne |
| Bovet, M. A. de | Marquise de Bois Hébert |
| Bowen, Marjorie | Gabrielle V. M. Campbell |
| Brada | Comtesse Puliga |
| Braddon, M. E. | Mrs. Maxwell |
| Breitmann, Hans | Charles G. Leland |
| Brenda | Mrs. Castle Smith |
| Buckley, Arabella B. | Mrs. Fisher |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Mrs. H. Townesend |
| Caballero, Fernan | Cecilia Boehl de Faber |
| Cambridge, Ada | Mrs. G. F. Cross |
| Carmen, Sylva | Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania |
| Carroll, Lewis | Charles L. Dodgson |
| Cassidy, James | Mrs. E. M. Story |
| Cavendish | Henry Jones |
| Cellarius | Thos. W. Fowle |
| Champfleury | Jules F. F. Husson-Fleury |
| Chester, Norley | Emily Underdown |
| Christian, Sydney | M. L. Lord |
| Clare, Austin | W. M. James |
| Cleeve, Lucas | Mrs. H. Kingscote |
| Cobbleigh, Tom | Walker Raymond |
| Collingwood, Harry | Wm. J. C. Lancaster |
| Colmore, George | Mrs. Baillie Weaver |
| Connor, Marie | Marie C. Leighton |
| Connor, Ralph | Charles W. Gordon |
| Conrad, Joseph | Joseph C. Korzeniowski |
| Conway, Derwent | Henry D. Inglis |
| Conway, Hugh | F. J. Fargus |
| Conway, James | Jas. Conway Walter |
| Coo-ee | Wm. S. Walker |
| Coolidge, Susan | Sarah C. Woolsey |
| Cooper, Rev. Wm. M. | James G. Bertram |
| Corthis, André | Mdlle. Husson |
| Craddock, C. E. | Mary N. Murfree |
| Crawley, Captain | G. F. Pardon |
| Cromarty, Deas | Mrs. R. A. Watson |
| Coulevain, Pierre de | Mdlle. F. de Coulevain |
| Counties, Home | J. W. K. Scott |
| Dale, Darley | Francesca M. Steele |
| Dall, Guillaume | Madame Jules Lebaudy |
| Danby, Frank | Julia Frankau |
| D'Anvers, N. | Mrs. Arthur Bell |
| Dean, Mrs. Andrew | Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick |
| Dehan, Richard | Clotilde Graves |
| Donovan, Dick | J. E. Preston Muddock |
| Douglas, George | Geo. D. Brown |
| Douglas, O. | Miss Buchan |
| Douglas, Theo | Mrs. H. D. Everett |
| Dowie, Ménie M. | Mrs. E. A. Fitzgerald |
| Duncan, Sara J. | Mrs. Everard Cotes |
| Ecilaw, Ary | Comtesse Czapska |
| Egerton, George | Mrs. R. Golding Bright |
| Eha | Edward H. Aitken |
| Eliot, George | Mary Anne Evans (afterwards Mrs. Cross) |
| Elbon, Barbara | Leonora B. Halsted |
| Elizabeth, Charlotte | Charlotte E. Tonna |
| Ellis, Luke | J. Page Hopps |
| Fairless, Michael | Margaret Fairless Barber |
| Falconer, Lanoe | Mary E. Hawker |
| Fane, Violet | Lady Philip Currie |
| Farningham, Marianne | Mary A. Hearne |
| Ferval, Claude | Baronne de Pierrebourg |
| Field, Michael | Misses Bradley and Cooper |
| Fin Bec | W. B. Jerrold |
| Fleming, George | Julia C. Fletcher |
| Flynt, Josiah | Frank Willard |
| Foreman Pattern-Maker, A | J. G. Horner |
| Forester, George | George Greenwood |
| Fowler, Edith A. | Mrs. R. Hamilton |
| Fowler, Ellen Thornycroft | Mrs. A. L. Felkin |
| France, Anatole | Anatole François Thibault |
| Francis, M. E. | Mrs. M. Blundell |
| Francis, R. E. | Frances Poynter |
| Free Lance, A. | F. H. Perrycoste |
| Freer, Martha W. | Mrs. M. W. Robinson |
| Frost, George | Mrs. S. Eddison |
| G. G. | — Harper |
| Garrett, Edward | Isabella F. Mayo |
| Gaunt, Mary | Mrs. Lindsay Miller |
| Gerard, Dorothea | Mdme. Longard de Longgarde |
| Gerard, Emily | Mdme. de Laszowska |
| Gerard, Morice | J. Jessop Teague |
| Gerrare, Wirt | W. O. Greener |
| Gift, Theo. | Dorothy H. Boulger |
| Grand, Sarah | Mrs. M'Fall |
| Gray, Maxwell | M. G. Tuttiett |
| Green, Anna K. | Mrs. C. Rohlfs |
| Grey, Rowland | Lilian R. Brown |
| Grier, Sydney C. | Hilda Gregg |
| Gréville, Henry | Alice M. C. Durand |
| Grove, Lilly | Mrs. J. G. Frazer |
| Gubbins, Nathaniel | Edward Spencer |
| Gyp | Comtesse de Martel de Janville |
| Haliburton, Hugh | J. L. Robertson |
| Hall, Eliza Calvert | Lina C. Obenchain |
| Hamel, Frank | Miss F. Hamel |
| Hamst, Olphar | Ralph Thomas |
| Hay, Ian | J. A. Beith |
| Hay, Marie | Baroness von Hindenburg |
| Hare, Christopher | Mrs. Andrews |
| Hayes, Henry | Mrs. E. O. Kirk |
| Heddle, Ethel F. | Mrs. W. Marshall |
| Hegan, Alice C. | Mrs. A. C. Rice |
| Henry, O. | Sydney Porter |
| Hertz-Garten, Theodor | Mrs. de Mattos |
| Hickson, Mrs. Murray | Mrs. S. Kitcat |
| Hieover, Harry | Charles Bindley |
| Hill, Headon | F. Grainger |
| Hilliers, Ashton | H. M. Wallis |
| Hobbes, John Oliver | Mrs. Pearl M. T. Craigie |
| Hoffmann, Professor | A. J. Lewis |
| Holcombe, Arnold | Arnold Golsworthy |
| Holdsworth, Annie | Mrs. E. Lee Hamilton |
| Holland, Clive | C. J. Hankinson |
| Hope, Andrée | Mrs. Harvey |
| Hope, Anthony | Anthony H. Hawkins |
| Hope, Ascott R. | Robt. H. Moncreiff |
| Hope, Graham | Jessie Hope |
| Hope, Laurence | Violet Nicholson |
| Hopper, Nora | Mrs. Chesson |
| Houville, Gérard d' | Mde. H. de Regnier |
| Howard, Keble | Keble Bell |
| Hume, Martin A. S. | Martin A. Sharp |
| Ingoldsby, Thomas | Richard H. Barham |
| Intelligence Officer | Lionel James |
| Iota | Kathleen Caffyn |
| Iron, Ralph | Mrs. O. Cronwright-Schreiner |
| Ironside, John | E. M. Tait |
| Jacberns, Raymond | Georgina M. I. Ash |
| Jacomb, A. E. | A. E. Jacomb Hood |
| James, Croake | James Paterson |
| Janus | Johann J. I. von Döllinger |
| Joubert, Carl | Adolphus W. C. Grottey |
| K., O. | Mdme. Olga Novikoff (née Kireff) |
| Keith, Leslie | Mrs. G. L. Keith Johnston |
| King, K. Douglas | Mrs. Godfrey Burr |
| Kipling, Alice | Mrs. Fleming |
| L., L. E. | Letitia E. MacLean (née Landon) |
| La Pasture, Mrs. H. de | Lady Hugh Clifford |
| Laffan, May | Mrs. W. N. Hartley |
| Larwood, Jacob | L. R. Sadler |
| Laurence, A. St. | Alfred L. Felkin |
| Law, John | Miss M. E. Harkness |
| Layland, F. | Mrs. Francis Barratt |
| Leander, Richard | R. Volkmann |
| Lee, Holme | Harriet Parr |
| Lee, Vernon | Violet Paget |
| Legrand, Martin | James Rice |
| Lennox | Lennox Pierson |
| Lenotre, G. | Théodore Gosselin |
| Lesueur, Daniel | Jeanne Loiseau |
| Lévi, Eliphas | Alphonse L. Constant |
| Lindsay, Harry | H. Lindsay Hudson |
| London, John o' | Wilfred Whitten |
| Loti, Pierre | Louis M. J. Viaud |
| Lucka, Sydney | Henry Harland |
| Lyall, Edna | Ada E. Bayly |
| Lys, Christian | Percy J. Brebner |
| Maartens, Maarten | J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz |
| McAulay, Allan | Charlotte Stewart |
| Maclaren, Ian | John M. Watson |
| Macleod, Fiona | William Sharp |
| Main, Mrs. | Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond |
| Malet, Lucas | Mrs. M. St. L. Harrison (née Kingsley) |
| Mansergh, Jessie | Mrs. G. de H. Vaizey |
| Marchant, Bessie | Mrs. J. A. Comfort |
| Markham, Mrs. | Mrs. Eliz. Penrose |
| Marlitt, E. | Henriette F. C. E. John |
| Marlowe, Charles | Harriet Jay |
| Marryat, Florence | Mrs. F. Lean |
| Marvell, Ik. | Donald G. Mitchell |
| Mathers, Helen | Mrs. H. Reeve |
| Meade, L. T. | Mrs. Toulmin Smith |
| Melville, Lewis | Lewis S. Benjamin |
| Meredith, Isabel | Olivia F. M. Rossetti |
| Meredith, Owen | Earl Lytton |
| Merriman, Henry Seton | H. S. Scott |
| Miles, Amber | Mrs. Cobden Sickert |
| Miles, Walker | E. S. Taylor |
| Miller, Joaquin | C. H. Miller |
| Mimosa | Mrs. M. Chan Toon |
| Montbard, G. | Charles A. Loyes |
| Montgomery, K. L. | Kathleen and Letitia Montgomery |
| Morris, May | Mrs. Sparling |
| Mulholland, Rosa | Lady Gilbert |
| Nesbit, E. | Edith Bland (Mrs. Hubert Bland) |
| Nimrod | C. J. Apperley |
| Nordau, Max | M. S. Südfeld |
| North, Christopher | Prof. John Wilson |
| North, Laurence | J. D. Symon |
| North, Pleydell | Mrs. Egerton Eastwick |
| Novalis | Friedrich von Hardenburg |
| Nye, Bill | E. W. Nye |
| Old Boomerang | J. R. Houlding |
| Oldcastle, John | Wilfred Meynell |
| Oliver, Pen | Sir Henry Thompson |
| Optic, Oliver | Wm. T. Adams |
| Orczy, Baroness | Mrs. Montagu Barstow |
| O'Rell, Max | Paul Blouët |
| Otis, James | J. O. Kaler |
| Ouida | Louise de la Ramée |
| Owen, J. A. | Mrs. Owen Visger |
| Oxenham, John | W. A. Dunkerley |
| Page, H. A. | Alex H. Japp |
| Palmer, Wm. Scott | Mrs. M. E. Dowson |
| Pansy | Isabella M. Alden |
| Parallax | Samuel B. Robotham |
| Parley, Peter | Wm. Martin |
| Paston, George | Miss E. M. Symonds |
| Pattison, Mrs. Mark | Lady E. F. S. Dilke |
| Paull, M. A. | Mrs. John Ripley |
| Percy, Sholto and Reuben | Joseph C. Robertson and Thomas Byerley |
| Phelps, Eliz. S. | Mrs. H. D. Ward |
| Pilgrim | Mrs. W. P. Browne |
| Plain Woman, A. | Miss Ingham |
| Prescott, E. Livingston | Edith K. Spicer-Jay |
| Prevost, Francis | H. F. P. Battersby |
| Pritchard, Martin J. | Justina Moore |
| Prout, Father | F. Mahony |
| Q. | Sir A. T. Quiller Couch |
| Raimond, C. E. | Elisabeth Robins |
| Raine, Allen | Mrs. P. Puddicombe |
| Rapier | A. E. T. Watson |
| Rayner, Olive Pratt | Grant Allen |
| Reed, Myrtle | Mrs. McCullough |
| Rhoscomyl, Owen | Owen Vaughan |
| Ridley, Mrs. Edward | Lady Alice Ridley |
| Rita | Mrs. W. Desmond Humphreys |
| Rives, Amélie | Princess Troubetzky |
| Robert ("A City Waiter") | John T. Bedford |
| Robins, G. M. | Mrs. L. Baillie Reynolds |
| Robinson, A. Mary F. | Mde. A. M. F. Darmesteter |
| Rogers, Halliday | Miss Reid |
| Rosny, J. H. | Les frères Boex |
| Ross, Adrian | Arthur R. Ropes |
| Ross, Martin | Violet Martin |
| Roy, Gordon | Helen Wallace |
| Rutherford, Mark | W. Hale White |
| Ruthven, E. C. | Miss Coleman |
| Ryce, John | Alice M. Browne |
| St. Aubyn, Alan | Frances Marshall |
| Saint-Patrice | James H. Hickey |
| Saintine, X. B. de | Joseph N. Boniface |
| Saki | H. H. Munro |
| Sand, George | A. L. Dudevant |
| Scalpel, Æsculapius | Edward Berdoe |
| Scott, Leader | Lucy E. Baxter |
| Seafield, Frank | Alex. H. Grant |
| Sedgwick, Anne D. | Mrs. B. de Sélincourt |
| Séguin, L. G. | L. G. Strahan |
| Serao, Matilde | Mde. E. Scarfoglio |
| Setoun, Gabriel | Thos. N. Hepburn |
| Sharp, Luke | Robert Barr |
| Shaw, Flora L. | Lady Lugard |
| Shirley | Sir John Skelton |
| Sigerson, Dora | Mrs. Clement Shorter |
| Sinjohn, John | John Galsworthy |
| Sketchley, Arthur | Geo. Rose |
| Slick, Sam | T. C. Haliburton |
| Son of the Marshes, A | Denham Jordan |
| Son of the Soil, A | J. S. Fletcher |
| Spinner, Alice | Mrs. A. Z. Fraser |
| Stendhal, M. de | Marie Henri Beyle |
| Stepniak, S. | S. M. Kravchinsky |
| Stonehenge | John H. Walsh |
| Strathesk, John | John Tod |
| Stretton, Hesba | Hannah Smith |
| Stuart, Esmé | Miss Leroy |
| Swan, Annie S. | Mrs. Burnett Smith |
| Swift, Benjamin | Wm. R. Paterson |
| Tallentyre, S. G. | Beatrice Hall |
| Tasma | Madame J. Couvreur |
| Thackeray, Anne I. | Lady A. I. Ritchie |
| Thanet, Octave | Alice French |
| Thirlmere, Rowland | John Walker |
| Thomas, Annie | Mrs. Pender Cudlip |
| Thorne, Guy | C. Ranger Gull |
| Thorne, Whyte | Richard Whiteing |
| Tomson, Graham R. | Rosamund M. Watson |
| Travers, Graham | Margt. G. Todd |
| Turner, Ethel | Mrs. H. R. Curlewis |
| Turner, Lilian | Mrs. F. L. Thompson |
| Twain, Mark | Samuel L. Clemens |
| Tynan, Katharine | Mrs. H. A. Hinkson |
| Tytler, Sarah | Henrietta Keddie |
| Uncle Remus | Joel C. Harris |
| Vados | Agnes Farley |
| Vernon, K. Dorothea | K. D. Ewart |
| Vivaria, Kassandra | Mrs. M. Heinemann |
| Wakeman, Annie | Mrs. Annie Lathrop |
| Walker, Patricius | Wm. Allingham |
| Wallis, A. S. C. | Miss Opzoomer |
| Wanderer | E. H. d'Avigdor |
| Warborough, Martin L. | Grant Allen |
| Ward, Artemus | Chas. F. Browne |
| Warden, Florence | Mrs. Florence James |
| Wardle, Jane | Oliver M. Hueffer |
| Waters | Wm. Russell |
| Weale, B. L. Putnam | Bertram L. Simpson |
| Webb, Mrs. | Mrs. Webb Peploe |
| Wells, Charles J. | H. L. Howard |
| Wentworth, Patricia | Mrs. G. F. Dillon |
| Werner, E. | Elisabeth Bürstenbinder |
| Weston, James | Edward Step |
| Wetherell, Eliz. | Susan Warner |
| Wharton, Grace and Philip | John C. and Katharine Thomson |
| Whitby, Beatrice | Mrs. Philip Hicks |
| Wiggin, Kate D. | Mrs. J. C. Rigg |
| Wilcox, E. G. | Mrs. Egerton Allen |
| Wilkins, Louisa | Louisa Jebb |
| Wilkins, Mary E. | Mrs. M. E. Freeman |
| Williams, F. Harold | F. W. O. Warde |
| Winchester, M. E. | M. E. Whatham |
| Winter, John Strange | Mrs. H. E. V. Stannard |
| Woodroffe, Daniel | Mrs. J. C. Woods |
| Worboise, Emma J. | Mrs. E. Guyton |
| York, Curtis | Mrs. S. Richmond Lee |
| Z. Z. | Louis Zangwill |
| Zack. | Gwendoline Keats |