Anne Brontë and her sisters Charlotte and Emily Brontë used male pseudonyms to counter the prejudice against women authors in the mid-19th century. She and her sisters chose masculine pen names that matched their initials. Anne published under the name Acton Bell, while Charlotte and Emily published as Currer Bell and Ellis Bell, respectively.
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