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
Una Ellis-Fermor Hampstead High School, Ellis-Fermor gained an exhibition award to read English at Somerville College, Oxford. Here she met and developed a friendly scholarly rivalry with fellow exhibitioner Vera Brittain. In 1918 Ellis-Fermor became a Lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College, and in 1930 was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay prize for English Literature by the British Academy for her work on Christopher Marlowe and her edition of "Tamburlaine". In 1938 Ellis-Fermor published "Twenty Two Poems" under the pseudonym Christopher Turnley, derived from Marlowe's first name and the middle name of her father, Joseph Turnley Ellis-Fermor. Appointed the first General