George Paston (1860–1936)

Emily Morse Symonds published under the masculine pen name George Paston, for much the same reason as George Sand and George Eliot -- because the world of literature was dominated by men. She made her literary debut at age 31 with a short article, "Cousins German," in Cornhill Magazine. In addition to a series of novels, culminating with A Writer of Books (1898), she produced literary biographies, plays, and iterary theory and criticism. One of her enduring works is Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century (1906).