Brontë

American  

[bron-tee] / ˈbrɒn ti /

noun

1. Anne Acton Bell, 1820–49, English novelist.

2. her sister Charlotte Currer Bell, 1816–55, English novelist.

3. her sister Emily Jane Ellis Bell, 1818–48, English novelist.

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Brontë British  

/ ˈbrɒntɪ /

noun

1. Anne , pen name Acton Bell . 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)

2. her sister, Charlotte , pen name Currer Bell . 1816–55, English novelist, author of Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857)

3. her sister, Emily ( Jane ), pen name Ellis Bell . 1818–48, English novelist and poet; author of Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Example Sentences

Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rachael Moran, 31, of Bronte Way in Southampton, was sentenced to 12 months, suspended for 18 months.

From BBC

The much-anticipated adaption of Emily Bronte's novel is a psychological thriller, starring Barbie actress Margot Robbie and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi.

From BBC

In another act of rebellion, she chooses some words from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”—another of Thomas’s favorites—that she asks to have tattooed on her torso: “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

From The Wall Street Journal