Brontë, Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey’s Brontë Plaque Had a Typo for 85 Years. It’s Fixed Now.
A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë at Poets’ Corner in the celebrated London church finally gets its accent marks.
Westminster Abbey corrects Brontë Sisters’ memorial mistake – 85 years after it was made
A mistake on Westminster Abbey's memorial to the Brontë sisters has been driving a researcher a bit dotty since it was spotted, and now, it's been fixed.
Misspelled memorial to Brontë sisters gets dots back
With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back. More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London's Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses - the two dots over the e in their surname.
A misspelled memorial to the Bronte sisters gets its dots back at last
The dots - which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” - were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
Dots above Bronte surname added to memorial nearly 85 years on from installation
Dots above Bronte surname added to memorial nearly 85 years on from installation - It is not known why the two dots above the ‘e’ at the end of the Bronte name were left off when it was originally installed in 1939.
Brontë memorial has diaereses added 85 years later
A memorial to the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne has had diaereses added above the letter "e" of the authors' surname, 85 years after it was unveiled. The rectangular stone tablet is in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey,
Bronte sisters memorial given correct dots after 85 years in Westminster Abbey
A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë has had the dots above their surname added nearly 85 years after it was first installed at Westminster Abbey. The diaereses – the two dots above the letter E at the end of the Brontë name – were omitted when it originally commemorated the novelists on Oct 8 1939,
A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last
With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back. More than eight decades after it was installed ...
Brontë memorial spelled right after 85 years as Yorkshire historian warns 'you missed a bit'
Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey is known as a "place of pilgrimage" for literature lovers, remembering world-famous greats ...
Brontë not Bronte: Misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters finally gets corrected
British literary names have been corrected. Because it’s Brontë, not Bronte. View on euronews ...
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Why the Brontë sisters have their dots back at last
Those two dots, known as a diaresis, have long since disappeared, but this week we can celebrate their return in a very ...
Brontë plaque corrects 85-year misspelling
The editor of the Brontë Society Gazette noticed that a plaque in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner spelled their last name ...
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Misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters at Westminster Abbey gets its dots back at last
The dots – which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” – were omitted when the stone tablet ...
Wuthering Heights: Everything We Know About Emerald Fennell's Upcoming Book-To-Screen Adaptation
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, an upcoming book-to-screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name, ...
'Wuthering Heights' and the Robbie-Elordi casting row
Casting Barbie and Elvis to play Brontë's lovers in Emerald Fennell's new film is 'fundamentally, egregiously wrong' ...