"THE HE'S ARE SHE'S In 1847, three novels excite England's readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame. Agnes Grey by Acton Bell strips bare the hypocrisy of the family. Jane Eyre by Currer Bell exalts the courage of an independent woman. No one knows that the authors are female. The brothers Bell are actually the sisters Bronte. These fragile girls, virgins all, Emily, Anne, Charlotte, avenge their solitude by writing poems and novels in a village lost on the Yorkshire moors. Intruders into the male world of literature, they don men's masks so the critics will forgive them for having dared. But the critics pan their works anyway, as "rude," "crude," "nasty," "savage," "brutal," "libertine" . . ."