What was the title of the Brontë sisters' first published book?

The Brontë sisters’ first published book was Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Published in 1846 by Aylott and Jones, the collection contained poetry by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who used male-sounding pseudonyms to conceal their identities and reduce prejudice against women writers.

Charlotte wrote as Currer Bell, Emily as Ellis Bell and Anne as Acton Bell. The volume included 19 poems by Charlotte, 21 by Emily and 21 by Anne. The sisters financed publication with money left by their aunt Elizabeth Branwell, who had helped raise them after their mother’s death.

The book attracted little commercial success at first; Charlotte later reported that only a small number of copies had been sold. Nevertheless, it established the Bell names and encouraged the sisters to pursue fiction. Their novels appeared the following year: Jane Eyre by Charlotte, Wuthering Heights by Emily and Agnes Grey by Anne. Those novels became far more famous than the poetry collection, which is why the book is sometimes confused with the sisters’ first novels.