A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

LONDON (AP) — With a number of daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have gotten their dots again.

Greater than eight many years after it was put in, a memorial to the three Nineteenth-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to revive the diaereses – the 2 dots over the e of their surname.

The dots — which point out that the identify is pronounced “brontay” moderately than “bront” — have been omitted when the stone pill commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected within the abbey’s Poets’ Nook in October 1939, simply after the outbreak of World Warfare II.

They have been restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the problem with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey requested its stonemason to faucet within the dots and its conservator to color them.

“There’s no paper report for anybody complaining about this or mentioning this, so I simply wished to place it proper, actually,” Wright stated. “These three Yorkshire girls deserve their place right here, however in addition they need to have their identify spelled accurately.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick modified the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to college in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died earlier than they have been 40, leaving enduring novels together with Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Corridor.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“Because the Brontës and their work are cherished and revered all around the world, it’s solely acceptable that their identify is spelled accurately on their memorial,” she stated.