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Leonard Campbell, Deux femmes, s/d. 

After an error was spotted on Anne Brontë’s gravestone, the deceased author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has finally been given a new one. The change comes after 164 years, during which Brontë’s headstone, located in St Mary’s Churchyard in Scarborough, gave her age at death as 29. But the author was actually 28 when she died in 1849 from tuberculosis. As the BBC reports, the updated plaque “has been officially unveiled during a service of dedication” held by the Brontë Society.” Apparently, there have been further errors on Anne’s grave in the past. The headstone was restored in 1852 when her sister Charlotte found five mistakes on it. While these were amended, the author’s age wasn’t. 

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