A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë at Poets’ Corner in the celebrated London church finally gets its accent marks.

A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë has had the dots above their surname added nearly 85 years after it was first installed at Westminster Abbey. The diaereses – the two dots above the letter E at the end of the Brontë name – were omitted when it originally commemorated the novelists on Oct 8 1939,

Dots above Bronte surname added to memorial nearly 85 years on from installation - It is not known why the two dots above the ‘e’ at the end of the Bronte name were left off when it was originally installed in 1939.

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 amid the outbreak of the Second World War