Talk:Brontë family

What was their father's original name? RickK 03:22, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Padraig mac Aedh Ó Proinntigh. He lived from 1777 to 1861, was born in Co. Down the eldest of ten children born to Aedh Ó Proinntigh and his wife Ellen Mhic Labhradha. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 6 July 2005 07:50 (UTC) (but information from Fergananim)

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Nearly this entire page is taken from The Bronte Parsonage Website - but I'm too cautious to blank and copy vio! Can anyone back me up here? Cabiria 19:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I am backing you up. I will add the copy violation text. Noirdame 09:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. I think you should keep some text that is just raw information, though. 66.229.182.113 00:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Name

The accent over the 'e' in 'Brontë' indicates that it's not really English cuz there aren't any accents in English, so where exactly does the name 'Brontë' come from? ~Sushi 04:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Bronte invented it. His real name was Brunty or Prunty. He was an Irish traitor who changed his name to an invented pretentious one to disguise the nationality he was ashamed of.

He (Mr.Brunty, Punty or Prunty) was the son of a foundling from England, so his nationality is up for discussion - by the way you are only a 'traitor' if you denounce others, not yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.215.8 (talk) 16:21, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Supposedly Patrick Brunty admired the great British Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, and changed his name to honor Nelson. That would also explain the accent mark, since the King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand, created Nelson a Duke in appreciation for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Nile, in 1798. References for that supposition would be welcomed here. Dthomsen8 (talk) 02:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)dthomsen8

Biography

The notorious book of Gaskell should not be called a biography. Gaskell had no idea what a biography really is. What she wrote is just a cumulation of gossip. If you want to be informed about the Brontës, reading Juliet Barkers book ist a MUST! Sorry for expressing myself in such a dictatorial way, but as the Oxford Companion to Englisch Literature states, there are "many legends but few certainties" especially about Emily.

If you could just source your statements then we can add this to the article. SmokeyJoe 06:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Invitation

You're invited to visit the page Les Brontë in the French version of Wikipedia. Your comments will be most welcome in its talk page. Please express your views in English. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.254.240.183 (talk) 23:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

That's a great article. Well done if you wrote it. Yohan euan o4 (talk) 23:46, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks I have added an expand tag for translators to use French article to expand this one. Keith D (talk) 18:38, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Consumption

The Bronte sisters were said in Scientific American to have died of tuberculosis, anyone can verify and include references to that?24.184.234.24 (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)LeucineZipper