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Flashbacks. (Backstory).(Charlotte Bronte, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Adele Morales)(Brief Article)

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1847 BELL'S ANGELS Charlotte Bronte's father read and loved her new novel, Jane Eyre--but had no idea his daughter was the author, because the first edition was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. (She had used the pen name on a previous book, just as her sisters, Anne and Emily, had published under the names Acton and Ellis Bell.) A year later, when Anne published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Acton Bell, the public became convinced that all three names actually referred to a single, talented male author.

1868 HOT AIR Adventure writer Jules Verne published the story ...

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