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

Had Brontë survived past 30, she might have worked yet-greater literary marvels, but as it is she left us with “Wuthering Heights,” a bravura work of melodrama published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Brontë was dead before it bore her name.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

If any place should be haunted, it is the Brontë parsonage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were “This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Brontë, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it.”

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt