What was Emily Bronte’s pen name?

Emily Jane Brontë (July 1818 – December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ‘Wuthering Heights’, which is now considered a classic of English literature.

‘Wuthering Heights’ was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby. It appeared as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included her sister, Anne Brontë's, ‘Agnes Grey’. The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's real name did not appear on her book until 1850, when it was printed on the title page of an edited commercial edition.

Emily and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, used pseudonyms, or pen names for their writing because female authors were not taken seriously during the 1800s, when they wrote. One reason that Emily chose her pseudonym was because it preserved her initials, E.B. Charlotte and Anne chose to use the same last name, writing as Currer Bell and Acton Bell, respectively.

Emily Brontë never knew the extent of fame she achieved with her only novel, as she died of tuberculosis at the age of 30, just a year after its publication.