author
George Paston
1860–1936
A sharp-eyed British novelist and critic who wrote under a male pen name, she explored literary life, social manners, and women’s place in the world with wit and intelligence. Her work moves between fiction, criticism, and cultural history, making her an intriguing voice from the late Victorian and early 20th-century period.
2 Audiobooks
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
by George Paston
Old Coloured Books
by George Paston
About the author
Born Emily Morse Symonds in 1860, the writer known as George Paston was a British author and literary critic. She published under a masculine pseudonym, a choice that places her in the company of other women writers who navigated a literary world still strongly shaped by male expectations.
She wrote novels as well as works of criticism and cultural history. Among the books linked with her name are A Modern Amazon, A Writer of Books, Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century, Old Coloured Books, and Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century. Her range suggests a writer interested not only in storytelling but also in how books, art, and society reflect one another.
George Paston died on September 12, 1936. Although she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her work still offers a lively window into the literary culture and social ideas of her time.