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pen name
an author's pseudonym


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As early as 1828, at least one Cherokee writer publicly aired specific misgivings about the high rates of intermarriage between Cherokee women and white men of poor character: in a fairly long opinion piece under the penname Socrates, the author disparaged marriages between Cherokee women and "the thief, the robber, the vagabond and the tippler and adulterer.
Edith Maude Eaton, better known by her penname "Sui Sin Far," is widely considered the "good" Eaton sister by contemporary critics, while Winnifred, "Onoto Watanna," is decidedly the "bad" one.
Under a penname "Old Country Rustic" (tu lao er), Cao published in Hong Kong newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s a series of essays on pre-1949 Shanghai after he left the city.
 
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