02152nam 22004453 450 991088792690332120220304080232.01-80064-328-4(MiAaPQ)EBC6898003(Au-PeEL)EBL6898003(CKB)21343250700041(NjHacI)9921343250700041(EXLCZ)992134325070004120220304d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWilliam Sharp and Fiona Macleod A LifeCambridge :Open Book Publishers,2022.©2022.1 online resource (476 pages)Print version: Halloran, William F. William Sharp and Fiona Macleod Cambridge : Open Book Publishers,c2022 9781800643277 William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman.Authors, Scottish19th centuryBiographyAuthors, ScottishLiterary forgeries and mystificationsAuthors, ScottishAuthors, Scottish.Literary forgeries and mystifications.828.709Halloran William F864518MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910887926903321William Sharp and Fiona Macleod2833231UNINA