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.
Stonemason Mark Croll correcting the memorial (c) Westminster Abbey / David Jacobson
The Brontë memorial was installed in Poets Corner on 8th October 1939 without much ceremony as it was on the outbreak of WWII. Paul de Labilliere, then Dean of Westminster, wrote in a letter to The Times that “I should greatly wish t