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30 Apr 2013 10:36 #132990
by ketchim
Author Anne Bronte, the sister of Charlotte and Emily :
has been given a new gravestone after 164 years to correct an error on the original.
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30 Apr 2013 10:37 #132991
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Anne, who wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
died in Scarborough in 1849
after succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 29.
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30 Apr 2013 10:38 #132992
by ketchim
Brother Branwell had died eight months earlier,
followed by Emily, who had written Wuthering Heights. :'(
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30 Apr 2013 10:47 #132993
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Jane Eyre , written by Charlotte is now hailed as a British classic !
she too died in 1855 of TB :'(
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