little authorial signatures (the littler the better)

wallace shown

ah yes from cluëless

There's Hubert Selby's use of the slash instead of the apostrophe, though this might not be a "little" signature. Also for some reason I remember William Burroughs' spelling of "naborhood" in more than one spot.

Love "gaol" and have always enjoyed spelling it that way whenever possible.
Quite amusing hearing Elden Ring YouTubers trying to get their mouths around "Ever-GOWEL". They are forgiven. But there's no excuse for calling Blaidd "Blade". He literally tells you it's pronounced "Blythe".

I thought of selby and the slash (along with spellings like krist) but yeah on the bigger side

With brophy & shew it’s the fact that she was doing it in the sixties through to the eighties, & doing it consistently in more or less conventional novels, essays & experimental fiction, it’s a minor thing that stands out (she also will always use sc or even scilicet where most will use viz so I kind of assume this is her dying on some pedantic hill)

first thing i thought of was salinger’s “goddam” - i don’t usually see it spelled without the silent N outside of his writing

can't remember who it was, but i remember recently reading another 20th century author how did the "shew" thing as well

IIRC H.P. Lovecraft used shew regularly.

Shew me the meaning of the word

There's no business like shewbusiness.

So let the sideshew begin

H.P. Lovecraft and the word eldritch. As Mark E Smith and Andrew from the Sisters picked up on.

Cormac McCarthy and the word and. Sentence beginner and otherwise.