Background
Source: Wikipedia
Bertha M. Clay is a literary pseudonym first used by Charlotte Mary Brame (based on the reversal of the initials). After Brame's death on 25 November 1884, Brame's daughter began to write under the name. 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.
