assumed name

• “General T. Pitcher, U.S. A. Edwards was the assumed name of General Pickett and his wife during their exile in Canada.”

  Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America

• “Although Holmes tended to travel under an assumed name — currently he was using a favourite,”

  Locked Rooms

• “Received the 28th No. (June the 28th) of the 'Every-Day Book,' in which is inserted a poem of mine which I sent under the assumed name of James Gilderoy, from Sunfleet, as being the production of Andrew Marvell, and printed in the 'Miscellanies' of the Spalding Antiquaries”

  Life and Remains of John Clare

• “Now, very pleased with himself, he caught a bus for Kowloon City where his father had rented a small apartment in an assumed name as one of their havens, far away from their real home in Wanchai near Glessing's Point.”

  Noble House

• “Irish Vindicator" of Montreal (1828), and still exists under the lately assumed name of "The Tribune".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “She thereupon published a scandalous pamphlet under the title of “Florence Boyle Price, a Warning; by Speranza,” with the evident intention of causing the public to believe that the booklet was the composition of Lady Wilde under the assumed name of Florence Boyle Price.”

  Oscar Wilde

• “Later in life the generous and romantic prince diverted himself with the adventurous beneficence of Haroun al Raschid, visiting the poor in disguise, listening to the recital of their sufferings and wrongs, and relieving them with ready largesse of charity and justice; and nothing so pleased and flattered him as to be called, in his assumed name of Nak Pratt, “the wise,” to take part in their sports and fêtes.”

  The English Governess at the Siamese Court

• “I was just as much as ever in love with Mrs. Edwards, who had become so attached to her assumed name that she hated to give it up and insisted that we should now and then call each other "Mr. and Mrs. Edwards," to keep in memory the sweet, all-belonging life we spent with each other in Canada.”

  Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America

• “In 1676 Gabriel de Foigny, under the assumed name of Jacques Sadeur, published at Vannes a quaint little duodecimo volume, purporting to give a description of an unknown southern land.”

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

• “She thereupon published a scandalous pamphlet under the title of "Florence Boyle Price, a Warning; by Speranza," with the evident intention of causing the public to believe that the booklet was the composition of Lady Wilde under the assumed name of Florence Boyle Price.”

  Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions

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