1 Charlotte Bronte: As the author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte is one of the most celebrated female novelists in all of history. 2  Many, however, do not realize that this quintessential English novel was originally written under a male pen name. 3  Charlotte Bronte published her works under the name Currer Bell.
The pituitary controls the function of most other endocrine glands and is therefore sometimes called the master gland. In turn, the pituitary is controlled in large part by the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that lies just above the pituitary.
The pituitary gland is every now and then called the master gland of the endocrine system, as it controls the functions of the other endocrine glands, such as the temperature, thyroid activity, growth during early days of birth, urine production, testosterone production in males and ovulation and estrogen production in females.