To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters follows the Brontë sisters in the eventful three-year period that saw them rise from ordinary, unmarried women, taking care of the household and their ...
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 ...
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 "Bronte"," she said. The Brontë name evolved from their father Patrick’s Irish surname of Prunty or ...
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 ...
Now, the punctuation indicates that the last vowel is pronounced separately: “BRON-tay” rather than “BRONT” or “BRUNT.” But the accent mark was actually the result of some poetic ...