Currer Bell

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A pen name that Charlotte Brontë used to hide her identity

proper noun

Literature

: Currer Bell

Charlotte Brontë published her first novel under the pen name Currer Bell.

Examples

The novel 'Jane Eyre' was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Charlotte Brontë used the name Currer Bell to bypass the prejudices against female authors of her time.
Many critics speculated about the true identity of Currer Bell after the book's release.
Many readers were surprised to discover that Currer Bell was actually a woman.
Charlotte Brontë used the name Currer Bell to bypass the prejudices against female authors of her time.
The novel 'Jane Eyre' was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Many critics speculated about the true identity of Currer Bell after the book's release.

Synonyms

Charlotte Bronte

vsCurrer Bell

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An English writer famous for the novel Jane Eyre

is the pen name used by the same novelist

Surface Forms

Currer Bell main

Morphology

Currer + Bell

This is a proper name / literary pen name and its meaning (a pseudonym used by Charlotte Brontë) cannot be derived from the parts. 'Currer' is not a normal lexical item and 'Bell' as a common noun or surname gives no clue that the phrase refers to a pen name, so a B1 learner who knows the words would not predict the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Currer Bell was the 'pen name' Charlotte Brontë used to hide that she was a woman; she chose a male-sounding name so readers and critics would take her work more seriously, and today the name refers to Brontë's pen name.