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27 September 2024 - Misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters finally gets its dots back

Publié par Marion Coste le 27/09/2024

Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey

Mark Brown (The Guardian, 26/09/2024)

An 85-year injustice has been rectified at with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte.

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Brontë memorial has diaereses added 85 years later

Julia Bryson (BBC News, 26/09/2024)

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.

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Anne Brontë — the sister we forgot

Nilanjana Roy (Financial Times, 21/05/2024)

One hundred and seventy five years ago, a young writer died of tuberculosis in Scarborough, where she had begged her sister to take her so that she might see the sea before she left this Earth. Anne Brontë was only 29, but she had already published poems and two striking novels, Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).

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