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
Sam Hanna Bell the Belfast house where Sam Hanna Bell wrote "December Bride". (Such plaques are erected to commemorate and honour notable people.) Sam Hanna Bell Sam Hanna Bell (19091990) was a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and broadcaster who lived in Northern Ireland. He was born in Glasgow to Ulster Scots parents. Following the death of his father he was brought at the age of seven to be reared in the Strangford Lough area of County Down, where his acclaimed novel of Ulster rural life, "December Bride" (1951), would be set. He moved to Belfast in 1921, where he worked at a