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
William Cooper (novelist) "You Can't Win", starring Ian McShane. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a version of "Scenes from Provincial Life" in the 1970s, and in 2003 broadcast a four-part dramatisation by Eric Pringle, with David Thorpe as Joe and Alison Pettitt as Myrtle. Malcolm Bradbury wrote a script for a TV dramatisation of "Scenes from Provincial Life" and "Scenes from Metropolitan Life" in six 55-minute episodes, which was never produced. William Cooper (novelist) Harry Summerfield Hoff (4 August 1910 – 5 September 2002) was an English novelist, writing under the name William Cooper. H. S. Hoff (William Cooper) was born in Crewe, the