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* The Poems of Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell was published and advertised at the sisters' own expense and sold only two copies.
Nava Atlas: Based Upon the Book: An Interview with Charlotte Brontë Nava Atlas 2011
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* The Poems of Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell was published and advertised at the sisters' own expense and sold only two copies.
Nava Atlas: Based Upon the Book: An Interview with Charlotte Brontë Nava Atlas 2011
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The Currer Bells get a good outing along with Tennyson, George Eliot, Thackeray and the rest.
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The Currer Bells get a good outing along with Tennyson, George Eliot, Thackeray and the rest.
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An example (from the USA) of the problems for reviewers posed by the Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell pseudonyms, courtesy of Edwin Percy Whipple (brief bio here):
Nice try, but no 2010
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The fashion which exalted her CB to such a pinnacle of fame, like many another fashion, has lost its vogue; and the present generation, wrapped in admiration of another school of fiction, has consigned the works of "Currer Bell" to a premature sepulchre.
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The Brontës – under their male pseudonyms, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell – had achieved what they had always sought.
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An example (from the USA) of the problems for reviewers posed by the Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell pseudonyms, courtesy of Edwin Percy Whipple (brief bio here):
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Anne Mozley, in 1853, recalled for the Christian Rememberer that 'Currer Bell' [Charlotte Bronte's pseudonym] had seemed on her first appearance as an author "an alien ... from society and amenable to none of its laws."
Hillary Rettig: The Eroticization of Equality and Social Justice 2009
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Charlotte kept her career as a published writer secret from almost all her acquaintance for years, continuing to use the pseudonym Currer Bell.
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