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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.
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
A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte has had the dots above their surname added nearly 85 years after it was first installed at Westminster Abbey. The diaereses, the name for the two dots ab
Bronte sisters' memorial finally corrected after 85 years in Westminster Abbey
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
Dots above Bronte surname added to London 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.
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 ...
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85 Years Later, a Brontë Typo Is Fixed
For 85 years, a stone tablet honoring literary greats Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë has hung in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner with a blatant omission. The sisters, three of the UK's greatest ...
Brontë plaque corrects 85-year misspelling
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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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