Mononymous person break with his past. The new name combined several features. It was an anagram for a Latinized version of his family surname, "Arouet, l[e] j[eune]"; it reversed the syllables of the name of a family "château", Airvault; and it has implications of speed and daring through similarity to French expressions such as "voltige", "volte-face" and "volatile". "Arouet" would not have served the purpose, given that name's associations with "roué" and with an expression that meant "for thrashing". The 19th-century French author Marie-Henri Beyle used many pen names, most famously the mononym Stendhal, adapted from the name of the little Prussian
Marie Manning (writer) Rome's 1937 revue "Pins and Needles" (later made famous by Barbra Streisand): "Oh Beatrice Fairfax, give me the bare facts,"<br> "How do you make them fall?"<br> "If you don't save me, the things the Lord gave me"<br> "Never will be any use to me at all." There is a poem by Kenneth Fearing entitled "Dear Beatrice Fairfax" in which he metaphorically lambasts social status as product guarantees. Marie Manning (writer) Marie Manning (January 22, 1872 —November 28, 1945) was a newspaper columnist and novelist in the early 20th century. She wrote the first newspaper advice column, "Dear Beatrice Fairfax", in