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
Maria Arena Bell Beautiful" ("credited as Maria Arena") "The Young and the Restless" Maria Arena Bell Maria Arena Bell (born March 10, 1963) is an American novelist, television and freelance writer. She is the former head writer and executive producer of the CBS Daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless." Bell is married to Bill Bell Jr., the eldest son of "Y&R" creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell. They have two children. Bell began her writing career for "The Bold and the Beautiful" in 1988 under writer William J. Bell. There, she helped create the character Sally Spectra who was