Pseudonym know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published "Shirley" and "Jane Eyre" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published "Wuthering Heights" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance
Sam Hanna Bell the Belfast house where Sam Hanna Bell wrote "December Bride". (Such plaques are erected to commemorate and honour notable people.) Sam Hanna Bell Sam Hanna Bell (19091990) was a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and broadcaster who lived in Northern Ireland. He was born in Glasgow to Ulster Scots parents. Following the death of his father he was brought at the age of seven to be reared in the Strangford Lough area of County Down, where his acclaimed novel of Ulster rural life, "December Bride" (1951), would be set. He moved to Belfast in 1921, where he worked at a