Brontë family "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey", had launched a rumour that the three novels were the work of one author, understood to be Ellis Bell (Emily). George Smith was extremely surprised to find two gawky, ill-dressed country girls paralysed with fear, who, to identify themselves, held out the letters addressed to "Messrs. Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell". Taken by such surprise, he introduced them to his mother with all the dignity their talent merited, and invited them to the opera for a performance of Rossini's "Barber of Seville". Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was published in 1847 under the masculine pseudonym Ellis
John R. Ellis Ellis (1943-2015) of Cincinnati, and two sisters, Susan Gayle Ellis (1942-2017) of Wilmington, and Doris E. Gossett (1939–2010) of Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1973, Ellis graduated from both Forest Hill Community High School and North Technical Educational Center, with credentials in commercial art. At North Technical, Ellis studied under the graphic artist Helen Drake. In the early 1970s, he was tutored by comic book artist C. C. Beck, the creator of "Captain Marvel". From 1973 to 1975 Ellis attended Palm Beach State College, then known as Palm Beach Junior College. He studied creative writing under the novelist David Stern, as