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
Vereen Bell Vereen Bell Vereen M. Bell (5 October 1911 – 26 October 1944) was an American novelist and naval officer, who was killed in action during World War II. Born in Cairo, Georgia, he graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1932. After writing several short stories and editing magazines, Bell wrote the novel "Swamp Water", set in the Okefenokee Swamp. It was originally published in 1940 as a serial in the "Saturday Evening Post". The novel was successfully adapted as a film (B&W) of the same title in 1941 and again as a color film, "Lure of The Wilderness",