Charlotte Brontë

Yes, Jane Eyre was published in 1847 under the androgynous pen name 'Currer Bell.' Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne used the Bell pseudonyms (Currer, Ellis, and Acton respectively) to avoid the prejudice Victorian society held against women writers.

Both were published in 1847, but Charlotte's Jane Eyre is a first-person coming-of-age narrative following a governess toward moral and romantic fulfillment, while Emily's Wuthering Heights is a multi-generational gothic tragedy centered on Heathcliff's destructive obsession with Catherine Earnshaw. Critics at the time considered Charlotte's novel more conventionally moral, though both were controversial.

After Emily (December 1848) and Anne (May 1849) both died of tuberculosis within months of each other, Charlotte was left as the last surviving Brontë sibling. She continued writing, publishing the novels Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853), before dying herself in 1855 during early pregnancy.

The Professor was actually the first novel Charlotte completed but was rejected by publishers and only published posthumously in 1857. Many readers find it a fascinating but drier companion to Jane Eyre, as it revisits themes of a protagonist seeking independence in a Belgian school setting, clearly drawing on her own time in Brussels.