BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF
ELLIS AND ACTON BELL
IT has been thought that all the works published under the names of
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person.
This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by a few words of disclaimer
prefixed to the third edition of \'Jane Eyre.\' These, too, it appears, failed to
gain general credence, and now, on the occasion of a reprint of \'Wuthering
Heights\' and \'Agnes Grey,\' I am advised distinctly to state how the case
really stands.
Indeed, I feel myself that it is time the obscurity attending those two

names - Ellis and Acton - was done away. The little mystery, which
formerly yielded some harmless pleasure, has lost its interest;
circumstances are changed. It becomes, then, my duty to explain briefly
the origin and authorship of the books written by Currer, Ellis, and Acton
Bell.