Currer Bell


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Noun1.Currer Bell - English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848)
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1847: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell.
1847: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell. 1854: Oscar Wilde (left) was born in Dublin.
| October 16 THE literary classic Jane Eyre was published today in 1847, having been written by Charlotte Bronte under the pen name of Currer Bell. The book was such an immediate success that Charlotte's sister, Emily, decided to publish her novel Wuthering Heights, three months later.
Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell were the pen names of which three sisters?
| 1847: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. | 1854: Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin.