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
Ray Ellis of the background music for cartoon studio Filmation from 1968 to 1982, according to DVD booklets for "Ark II", "Space Academy", and "Jason of Star Command." Before adopting the pseudonym Yvette Blais, Ellis used "Spencer Raymond" on 1968's "Fantastic Voyage," "George Blais" on some of Filmation's early '70s output and its feature films, and the name of his teenaged son Marc Ellis on 1969's "The Hardy Boys." (Marc would later become a composer, assisting his father without credit on Filmation scores receiving credit for co-composing the theme to the 1979 "Flash Gordon" cartoon.) On 1978's "Fabulous Funnies", Ellis was credited