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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I've just found this thread again. In Harriet Martineau's Biographical Sketches there is a footnote to the effect that the author we know as Charlotte Brontė signed her letters and financial dealings as Charlotte Bronti, (with umlaut), but since the family gravestone uses Brontė 'this must be considered the established spelling'.
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Fascinating. A good clue to how the family pronounced their name.