What a difference a paintbrush makes… More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the ‘e’ in their surname. The dots – which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” – were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II. They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Societ…