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
Royston Ellis Royston Ellis Royston Ellis, (born Christopher Royston George Ellis, 10 February 1941 in Pinner) is an English novelist, travel writer and erstwhile beat poet. Ellis was educated at state schools in Middlesex until he left age 16, determined to be a writer. Two years later, his first book, Jiving to Gyp, a sequence of poems, was published and he performed his poetry on stage and TV to backing by Cliff Richard's original group, the Shadows; by Jimmy Page, later of Led Zeppelin; and by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe who become famous as the Beatles, a