Charlotte Bronte‘s Notes On The Pseudonyms Used
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ELLIS AND ACTON BELL
It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person. This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by a few words of disclaimer prefixed to the third edition of ‘Jane Eyre.‘ These, too, it appears, failed to gain general credence, and now, on the occasion of a reprint of ‘Wuthering Heights‘ and ‘Agnes Grey,‘ I am advised distinctly to state how the case really stands.
Indeed, I feel myself that it is time the obscurity attending those two names--Ellis and Acton--was done away. The little mystery, which formerly yielded some harmless pleasure, has lost its interest； circumstances are changed. It becomes, then, my duty to explain briefly the origin and authorship of the books written by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
About five years ago, my two sisters and myself, after a somewhat prolonged perio

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