Jane Eyre (post 9) had to be written by Currer Bell, not Charlotte Brontë, because it would have portrayed the latter as coming from an immoral family

At the time Jane Eyre was written, Charlotte Brontë’s father had been blind (for which she had taken him to have cataract surgery). So for Charlotte Brontë, herself, to have written a novel in which a woman who looked like Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre) married a man old enough to be her father who had become blind (Rochester), would have looked like a novel about incest. Moreover, before the novel’s protagonist marries her “father,” she has to resist intense pressure to marry her “brother.”

I do not know, and am not saying, that there was incest in the Brontë family. Nor am I saying that Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel, but then realized what I said above about how it would look, and so concocted a pseudonym for appearances. What I am saying is that the regular Charlotte Brontë personality would not have written such a self-incriminating story in the first place. Such a story had to have been written by an alternate personality who would not have been embarrassed by it, such as Currer Bell, who was not a member of a family like that in the novel: with a small, plain, young woman, a blind father, a gone mother, and a wayward brother.