Anonymous works by era

Anonymity means something different in every century. Before print it was the default state of literature; in the 1700s it was armor for dangerous argument; in the 1800s a rite of debut; today a deliberate, sometimes marketed choice.

• Before 1700

  56 works

• The 1700s

  8 works

• The 1800s

  24 works

• Early 1900s

  5 works

• Mid 1900s

  2 works

• Contemporary

  14 works