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
Oscar Moore (novelist) Oscar Moore (novelist) Oscar Moore (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996) was a British journalist and the author of one novel, "A Matter of Life and Sex", published in 1991 originally under the pseudonym Alec F. Moran (an anagram for "roman à clef"). He grew up in London and was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, going on to read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1982. He worked as a journalist and critic, under his own name and various pseudonyms, to such magazines as "Time Out", "I-D", "The Times", "Punch", "The Evening Standard", and