Bertha M. Clay

Bertha M. Clay is a literary pseudonym first used by Charlotte Mary Brame (based on the reversal of the initials).

At the same time the pseudonym became a house name of Street & Smith, where "a dozen male writers" including John Russell Coryell and Frederick Merrill Van Rensselaer Dey wrote under the name.

Other authors known to have used the name are Gilbert Patten, William J. Benners, William Wallace Cook, Frederick Dacre, Charles Garvice, Thomas C. Harbaugh, and Thomas W.

Books could appear under different titles, some staying in print for 47 years.

[2] Street and Smith's "new Bertha M. clay Library" ran to more than four hundred volumes.