anonymously yours

The Guardian reviews a book about the allure of anonymity for authors through the ages:

Why was it so important to so many authors to remain unnamed? The perplexed compilers of the dictionary guessed that the usual motive was “some kind of timidity, such as (a) diffidence, (b) fear of consequences, and (c) shame”. Yet this does scant justice to the ambitions of some of the authors who used anonymity. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” and Byron’s “Don Juan”, both originally anonymous, were hardly works by timid writers. Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, authorless in their first editions, were not published diffidently or fearfully. Indeed, in these cases as in many others, the authors did not really expect to remain hidden. If you follow in any detail the use of anonymity by literary writers - satirists, poets, dramatists and novelists - you will find that only rarely was final concealment the aim. Provoking curiosity and conjecture - highlighting the very question of authorship - was more often the calculated effect.

This is not a challenge to you, dear readers. Furthermore, I am pseudonymous, not anonymous. (And likely to stay that way.)