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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Almost certainly not the author but the typesetters. Typesetters were expected to correct typos and errors as they went. (Consider that the typesetters of The Hobbit in the 1930s took it upon themselves to 'correct' all instances of dwarves to dwarfs in the first galleys!)
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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'.