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
Vivienne Rae-Ellis by the painter Thomas Gainsborough and his family. She died at her home on 29 March 2015, taking her own life after developing a terminal illness. Vivienne Rae-Ellis was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Society of Authors. Vivienne Rae-Ellis Vivienne Rae-Ellis, FRGS (23 July 1930 – 29 March 2015) was an Australian writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Antonia Bell. Rae-Ellis was born in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, in 1930, the only daughter of four children. Her parents were Linda, née James (1908–1982) and Donald Thurstans (1904–1988). Soon after her birth the family