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
Ellis Meredith Ellis Meredith Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado. Ellis Meredith was born in Montana Territory in 1865 to Frederick Allison and Emily R. Sorin Meredith. Her mother graduated from Hamline University at Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1859 and received her masters' degree in 1863. Her father was the editor of the "Red Wing Republican" when they were married. The Merediths were settlers of Bannack by the winter of 1862–1863 when they traveled by wagon to Bitterroot Valley in southwestern Montana. Ellis, her mother and brother, went to her