Their poetry and writing is a masterpiece of the ... the finishing touches to the memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in London.
The Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey has been amended to include the diaereses (dots) over the ‘e’ of the names of the literary sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, which have been missing from the ...
They didn’t have the correct punctuation on the E, so it sounded more like ‘Bront’ not ‘Brontë’.” The only surviving picture of the three sisters, painted by their brother ...
The diaereses, the name for the two dots above the "e" at the end of the Bronte name, were omitted when it originally commemorated the novelists amid the outbreak of the Second World War A ...
What a difference a paintbrush makes... More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended to ...
A MEMORIAL to the famous Bradford-born Bronte sisters has had the dots above their surname added nearly 85 years after it was first installed at Westminster Abbey. During their shorts lives ...
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 ...
"They didn't have the correct punctuation on the "e" so it sounded more like "Bront" not "Bronte"," she said. The Brontë name evolved from their father Patrick’s Irish surname of Prunty or ...