"Anne Bronte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an attempt at sharp practice by another firm that Messrs. Smith & Elder became aware of the identity of the author with Miss Bronte. In the June of 1848, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," a second novel by Anne Bronte—"Acton Bell"—was submitted for publication to the firm which had previously published "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey," and this firm announced the new book in America as by the author of "Jane Eyre," although Messrs. Smith, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton |
