In 1847, Jane Eyre was published in London, signed by its author under the pseudonym Currer Bell, where she hid her initials, just like her sisters did. It is considered one of the first feminist novels (labeled in its day as a dangerous manifesto…). The technique of automatic writing and the first-person narration of the protagonist tinged themes such as marriage and eroticism with an unusually intimate tone, achieving a bold novel that was an enormous immediate success, despite which Charlotte Brontë took years to acknowledge its authorship.