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
Robert Crichton (novelist) Robert Crichton (novelist) Robert Crichton (January 29, 1925 – March 23, 1993) was an American novelist. Crichton was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. Robert Crichton's father, Kyle Crichton, was a writer/editor at Collier's magazine with experience as a coal miner and steel worker; he wrote novels and biographies (including a biography of the Marx Brothers) and also wrote for The New Masses and the Daily Worker under the name Robert Forsythe, publishing a collection of articles that was entitled "Redder Than the Rose". Robert Crichton served in the infantry during World War II,