The Brontë sisters
勃朗特姊妹(The Brontë sisters)
Charlotte, Emily and Anne produced their masterworks of Victorian literature under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. They chose these androgynous monikers because of “a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice,” an impression shared by at least two other great “authoresses” of the day, George Eliot and George Sand.
夏洛特(Charlotte)、艾米麗(Emily)和安妮(Anne)用柯勒(Currer)、埃利斯(Ellis)和阿克頓·貝爾(Acton Bell)為筆名發(fā)表了維多利亞文學中的杰作。她們采用沒有明顯性別特征的筆名,是因為她們“有一種模糊的感覺,覺得女性作家容易遭受成見”,至少同時期的另外兩位“女作家”喬治·艾略特(George Eliot)和喬治·桑(George Sand)也和她們有同感。