Brontë
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Anne Acton Bell, 1820–49, English novelist.
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her sister Charlotte Currer Bell, 1816–55, English novelist.
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her sister Emily Jane Ellis Bell, 1818–48, English novelist.
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Anne , pen name Acton Bell . 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)
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her sister, Charlotte , pen name Currer Bell . 1816–55, English novelist, author of Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857)
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her sister, Emily ( Jane ), pen name Ellis Bell . 1818–48, English novelist and poet; author of Wuthering Heights (1847)
Example Sentences
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This is Brontë country, after all, so it's fitting that it's also perfect Brontë weather.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
This particular "Mass Wuther" perhaps has an even stronger claim than most – it's held on Penistone Hill, not far from the famous Brontë parsonage in Haworth, in the Pennines.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Brontë was born in 1818 into a household acquainted with grief; her mother died in 1821 and her two eldest siblings within weeks of each other in 1825.
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
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
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