We each set to work on a prose tale: Ellis Bell produced Wuthering Heights, Acton Bell, Agnes Grey, and Currer Bell also wrote a narrative in one volume. It did finally did find a home and was published in 1846 to absolutely no fanfare and humiliating sales of two copies.Ĭharlotte continues: “Ill-success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence it must be pursued. “The book” referred to above was Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell’s Poems. … The book was printed: it is scarcely known, was published and advertised at the sisters’ own expense and sold two copies) and all of it that merits to be known are the poems of Ellis Bell.” We agreed to arrange a small section of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed.
This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied us, now suddenly acquired strength and consistency: it took the character of a resolve. “We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. It’s not clear whether this was a common surname in their area, or somewhat prescient - Charlotte’s late-life marriage was to Arthur Bell Nichols. Pen names and a failed poetry bookĬharlotte, Emily, and Anne were Currer, Ellis, and Acton respectively, all sharing the faux surname of Bell. They took masculine, or at least indeterminate, noms de plume. Here’s the story of the Brontë sisters’ path to publication, steered by Charlotte’s unwavering persistence.īefore attempting to publish novels, Charlotte, who seemed to be the front person for the trio of sisters, undertook the task of finding a home for a collaborative book of poems. The Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - went through an arduous process in seeking publication for their first works - The Professor, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey, respectively ( The Professor was Charlotte’s first full novel, written before Jane Eyre, but published only after her death).
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