Anne 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.
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,
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.
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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 specific place: a memorial plaque at Westminster Abbey to the Brontë sisters. Thanks to the Brontë Society,
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.
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, 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.
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,
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Brontë plaque corrects 85-year misspelling
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Happy ending for Brontë memorial in 85th anniversary year
The Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey has been amended to include the diaereses (dots) over the ‘e’ of the names of the ...
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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 ...
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