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Dots above Bronte surname added to memorial nearly 85 years on from installation

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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 above the “e” at the end of the Bronte name, were omitted when it originally commemorated the novelists on October 8 1939 amid the outbreak of the Second World War. Journalist and Bronte historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Bronte Society Gazette, raised the issue with the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, and the Abbey asked its stonemason to tap the dots in and its conservator to paint them.

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