Day 18 of the #LadysMagazineAdventCalendar: I am fascinated about the culture of pseudonymity and the many different (and often serious or radical) uses to which it was put by contributors. Then there are other kinds of pseudonym. The double pun here in this letter to the magazine’s medical columnist (Dr Turnbull, the successor to Dr Cook) is something else. Fanny Rash has impetuously plunged her face into a bowl of water and needs advice #innuendo #psedonymity #histodon #bookstadon
Sorry: should have said this is from the November 1786 issue. And Fanny Rash never received a reply.