“... losses of other men, the worst way of getting in the world’.It suited a lot of people to blame anonymous mobs of wreckers: merchants trying to claim compensation for their goods; landowners with deep wine cellars; newshounds sniffing for a sensational scoop. In 1679 the Domestick Intelligence reported a French vessel wrecked at a (suspiciously ...”

“... after my brother’s death, I was shaken. Someone once suggested to him that he check out Gamblers Anonymous. But he’d have to put that one on the list with Alcoholics Anonymous, Drugs Anonymous, Sex Anonymous, Fighting ...”

“... and pulp romance. As a draughtsman, Baxter is incomparably more accomplished than his usually anonymous predecessors, but he achieves (as it were) the same nerveless outline – an effect of melting bakelite and overstretched rubber bands – and the same indecisively granular texture. The relation between picture and narrative caption is perfectly ...”

“... in the sense of favourably, reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, and what it is to contribute to this anonymous publication. With Cockburn’s friend Francis Jeffrey as editor, the journal had been running for almost ten years as an instrument of the Whig persuasion, and was to run on as such into a future that held the Parliamentary triumph of 1832, when the ...”

“... in Robinson in Space. It shares much with the first two: the immobile camera frames bits of anonymous infrastructure and residual pastoral, mostly filmed not far from Keiller’s home in Oxford, and the whole is propelled by a story about land use and power over several centuries, voiced this time by Vanessa Redgrave. But it is in some ways a different ...”

“... with the tiniest of gaps between the two. In the late 1990s he further emphasised this peculiarly anonymous quality of the surface when he began using silkscreen images, taken from photographs of his own work. He went the full Warhol, as it were. Painted loops were photographed, turned into silkscreen, and then printed directly back on canvas, a reiteration ...”

“... James’s to be published, in the Atlantic Monthly of March 1865, and ‘A Tragedy of Error’, an anonymous story that appeared in the Continental Monthly of February 1864 and is generally accepted to be James’s work (it’s included in Leon Edel’s edition of the shorter fiction), Horowitz became convinced that they were much too ...”

“... is by no means adequate, but I suspect that you very greatly overrate the novel.’ In the days of anonymous reviewing editorial standards of impartiality were often compromised. Scott’s authorship of the Waverley novels was an open secret in the literary world but in 1816 Murray co-published his collected Tales of My Landlord, which carried no claim to be ...”

“... the style of the public galleries, which space it out and seclude you and the work within an anonymous white box. In the Fine Art Society, on the other hand, you not only find furniture and pottery (Gersaint, too, sold more than pictures – on the counter, alongside the mirror, is a dressing case) but also walls close-packed with pictures.Then there is ...”

“... tunnels. There are pictures of Churchill at a window and Attlee on the hustings, but it is the anonymous characters you think about; the historical figures are already settled in your mind. The style of photography – the whole scene, not the close-up, the aftermath of the raid rather than the flames and falling buildings – was already ...”

“... Dan, Andreas Pum, Benjamin Lenz, Franz Tunda. They are largely undifferentiated, undescribed, anonymous, like markers. Where they are is the front line, each of them the flag in his own personal campaign; one can understand why Roth wrote a novel about Napoleon (Die Hundert Tage). They are capable, attractive, viable men, but somehow disabled or ...”

“... George Carey-Foster, Sir Frederick Warner, agents and diplomats on the security side, and a large anonymous group of Intelligence men from both branches of the service, retired and active. The reason can be guessed at. Boyle’s American breakthrough depended upon the Freedom of Information Act, which brought him baskets of US Intelligence material on matters ...”

“... extraordinary familiarity with Hobbes’s handwriting and that of his friends and associates. The anonymous collector who owns ‘Considerations touching the facility or difficulty of the motions of a horse’, a work always previously attributed to Hobbes, will be dismayed to find it re-attributed to one of his closest friends, Robert Payne. Another ...”

“... significance sticking to the year. Mason points out that the original version of 1798, which was anonymous, caught on less well than the second (1800), twice as long, and firmly attributed to Wordsworth alone. The two authors worked on four editions, appearing over seven years, further proof that there was no ‘historical moment but a sequence of ...”

“... best known of all. The most famous American poem of the Victorian age is ‘Away in a manger’ (anonymous), with ‘O little town of Bethlehem’ (Phillips Brooks) and ‘Dear Lord and Father of mankind’ (John Greenleaf Whittier) as runners-up. Among the works of the canonical English poets, the lines known to most people are probably those beginning ...”