Winifred Boggs (26 January 1874 – 10 November 1931) was an English short story writer and novelist who also used two pseudonyms, Edward Burke and Gloria Manning.
[1] Robert Boggs became an Insurance Inspector and according to Census records, later children were born in Surrey, Monmouth, Herefordshire and Anglesey, indicating that they moved several times.
The novel Improper Prue was published anonymously in the UK by John Long, but in the USA it was issued under the name Gloria Manning.
[6] She published two more novels in the U.K., both advertised as written by ‘The Author of Improper Prue’: The Price of Possession in 1912 and Salad Days: a Comedy of Youth in 1914, also issued by John Long.
Boggs published five more novels using the pseudonym Edward Burke, although The Sale of Lady Daventry (Herbert Jenkins, 1913) was initially released anonymously as it was considered to be sensational and caused speculation about who had written it.
[10][11] The reason for using pseudonyms may be captured in the request of a reviewer of Winifred Boggs’ fourth novel, Vagabond City (G.P.
Putnams Sons, 1911), who wrote: ‘Miss Boggs: might we plead for a more euphonious nom de plume’.