[Ads-l] Potential authors

[Charles C Doyle]

The genre is traced back to the mid-17th century by me: "Title-Author Jokes, Now and Long Ago," Journal of American Folklore 76 (1973): 52-54; and at somewhat greater length in a chapter (of the same title) in my Doing Proverbs and Other Kinds of Folklore: Philological and Historical Studies (Burlington VT: Proverbium, 2012), 207-213.
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Many years ago we had a brief discussion of imaginary books with punningly
named imaginary authors (like "Secrets of a Happy Marriage," by Maude
Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzmaude).

The Washington [D.C]. Times of Jan. 27, 1922 (Home-Town Page) offers the
following names, each one of which might proudly appear on a title page.

"Fashionable names selected from Dr. Dumbbell's Dictionary, by 'Peggy Bee':

George Town   Dan De Lion
Ray Zor            O. U. Vamp
Ham Mock       Al Cohol
C. U. Later       Phil A. Delphia
I. M. Simple     O. Leo Margarine"

JL

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