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
Colin Douglas (novelist) well-received as a more serious work than the earlier series. Under his real name he has contributed to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's speechwriting team. Colin Douglas (novelist) Colin Douglas is the pseudonym of a Scottish novelist, Colin Thomas Currie. Born in Glasgow in 1945, who was schooled at Hamilton Academy before graduating in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1970. He was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to medicine. He is married to his wife Anne (née Sudholt) a retired epidemiologist and general practitioner. They have three children, Arthur George Currie, attending the number one business