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Article milestones Date Process Result October 10, 2009 Good article nominee Not listed February 23, 2026 Good article nominee Listed A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 15, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family? A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 17, 2018. Current status: Good article

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Does this grave image look a little too... Well, grave? -- Goatboy

:-) I added a pic of her. Bogdan | Talk 10:34, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Excellent :) -- Goatboy

yeah is the grave needed? she did more that die you know137.154.16.31 02:04, 7 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

• Agree with merge, so I merged. Thatcher131 00:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Why does the grave inscription say she died aged 28 when she was clearly 29 years old at the time of her death? – Alensha ^talk 21:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Recent editors have changed the pronunciation to bron-tay. I'd always heard it as bron-tee. Just want to verify this, as all the other Bronte sisters are currently transcribed as bron-tee. — kwami (talk) 06:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

This is one of the finest articles available; is there any reason why it doesn't qualify for Good or Featured article? John Holly (talk) 10:37, 11 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

There are a few minor WP:MOS problems that could be fixed-up quickly and a GA nomination made. Feel free to nominate it if you are able to respond and make changes to review comments when they are made. I can fix-up the few problems I see later today. Keith D (talk) 11:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I have had a copy-edit pass through to pick up the obvious things and to standardise on some things. If you want to submit a GA nomination then go ahead and see that the response is. Keith D (talk) 17:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I nominated this article after keeping it on my watchlist for some time and monitoring edits. I will make any improvements/edits that are needed as a result of the GAN process.--Harkey (talk) 17:20, 7 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Recently the file File:Anne Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 06:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

This review is transcluded from Talk:Anne Brontë/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

I am failing this article because the references are inaccurate and sometimes missing, it contains plagiarism, there are image problems, and it does not adequately cover the topic.

• I spot-checked some of the references and started finding problems. All of the references should be checked.

• Anne's father, Patrick Brontë (1777–1861), was born in a meagre two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland. - This is on page 2, not 3, of Barker.
• Anne was buried not in Haworth with the rest of her family, but in Scarborough. The funeral was held on Wednesday, 30 May, which did not allow time for Patrick Brontë to make the 70-mile (110 km) trip to Scarborough, had he wished to do so. The former schoolmistress at Roe Head, Miss Wooler, was also in Scarborough at this time, and she was the only other mourner at Anne's funeral. - Sourced to page 575, which does not discuss Anne's death at all.
• In February 1849, Anne seemed somewhat better. - Listed as 587, should be 588.
• By this time, she had decided to make a return visit to Scarborough in the hope that the change of location and fresh sea air might initiate a recovery, and give her a chance to live. - Listed as 588, should be 587.
• If Anne did form an attachment to Weightman, that does not imply that he, in turn, was attracted to her. Indeed, it is entirely possible that Weightman was no more aware of her than of her sisters or their friend Ellen Nussey. Nor does it follow that Anne believed him to be interested in her. If anything, her poems suggest just the opposite–they speak of quietly experienced but intensely felt emotions, intentionally hidden from others, without any indication of their being requited. It is also possible that an initially mild attraction to Weightman assumed increasing importance to Anne over time, in the absence of other opportunities for love, marriage, and children. Anne would have seen William Weightman on her holidays at home, particularly during the summer of 1842, when her sisters were away. He died of cholera in the same year. - This information is not available on 403. That page recounts Weightman's death.

• Image problems

• File:AnneBronte.jpg - The source link for this image does not identify the artist as Charlotte Bronte. Do you have a reference for that information? The image description description page also needs to include Charlotte's death date to establish "life of the author plus 70 years".
• File:Anne Bronte.jpg - This image needs a source. The image description page also needs to include Charlotte's death date to establish "life of the author plus 70 years".
• File:Annebronte.jpg - Is Christopher Sheffield, the photographer, also the uploader? This is unclear from the image description page.

• Coverage

• The article needs to include more information about Bronte's works, specifically her writing style. There are two ways of doing this: 1) list the author's works individually as in Mary Wollstonecraft or 2) discuss the the style of the author in general as in Mary Shelley.
• I would suggest expanding your research to include basic books such as The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes. Biographies provide only so much commentary on the writings and generally from a biographical viewpoint. The article needs to provide more viewpoints than this one. The Cambridge Companion will also provide you a good list of important Bronte scholarship to use to discuss Bronte's works.
• With the removal of the plagiarized material, there is nothing on Agnes Grey.

• Citations

• There are many sections of the article that need citations. I added some ref tags a few days ago. I see that some have been fixed, but there are still some.

• Plagiarism

• As I was looking at the sources, I found plagiarism in the article. I have started removing it. Since I found this, I would suggest a thorough review of the article. See this dispatch for advice on how to avoid plagiarism in the future. Here is the source that was copied.

I hope this review is helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions. Awadewit (talk) 02:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

I've found a source for the pronunciation of the surname Brontë, from Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. To quote from the Explanatory Notes:

"When our research shows that an author's pronunciation of his or her name differs from common usage, the author's pronunciation is listed first, and the descriptor commonly precedes the more familiar pronunciation."

The book then goes on to list BronTEE as the author's pronunciation, but commonly pronounced by others as BronTAY.

This source is available on Google Books, so anyone can check it online. DORC (talk) 18:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Anne Brontë/CommentsTalk:Anne Brontë/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

. Requires copy edit for WP:MOS Almost ready to consider a GA review. Keith D (talk) 11:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Last edited at 21:09, 28 April 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 07:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

This source says it is "Brontay"? 2A00:23C7:518:7B00:FD07:4FE5:CC0F:6629 (talk) 13:09, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Is this inconsistent with our article in some way? pburka (talk) 03:45, 27 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

This review is transcluded from Talk:Anne Brontë/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: ArthurTheGardener (talk · contribs) 10:36, 16 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Tim riley (talk · contribs) 12:38, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Happy to review this article. Initial comments to follow. Tim riley talk 12:38, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Comments

This is a lovely article and I cannot deny that my eyes misted over when reading the section about her last days and her death. I shall certainly be promoting the article to GA, but before I do here are a few comments you may like to consider – or not: entirely up to you, apart from the first and last which I think I must insist on:

• "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.[2]" – there must be nothing in the lead that is not substantiated in the main text (see MOS:LEAD: "Apart from basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article"). The feminist aspect needs developing in the main text with suitable citations, and then you can dispense with the citation in the lead.
• "Anne was the last of six children born to Maria Branwell" – unless she was born out of wedlock, which seems improbable, her mother was Maria Brontë née Branwell.
• "Charlotte edited Agnes Grey to fix issues with its first edition" – this is woolly: what was the matter with it and what were the (horrid word) "issues"?
• "Anne was the youngest of the Brontë children" – you've already told us that in the immediately preceding sentence.
• "In summer 1824" – our manual of style bids us avoid dating an event by seasons, as what is summer in Haworth is winter in Cape Town. (I think this is rather extreme advice, but if one doesn't know the month one can always write "mid-1824" or some such.)
• "Anne shared a room with her aunt, Elizabeth Branwell" – you've told us before who her aunt was.
• "five young children, the eldest of which was six years old" – admittedly to elderly persons like me, the Lord's Prayer begins "Our Father, which art in Heaven", but in the third decade of the twenty-first century surely your text should read "the eldest of whom was …"
• "but due to a lack of suitable pupils" – In AmE "due to" is accepted as a compound preposition on a par with "owing to", but in BrE it is not universally so regarded. "Owing to" or, better, "because of" is safer.
• In your Notes section your citations of Juliet Barker's book need rationalising. Some include the year, publisher and ISBN but others do not. And in references 5 a and b we need a page number for the Barker book. I was about to add that as you have the full bibliographical details in your References section, year, publisher and ISBN are not needed in the Notes list, but I'm puzzled that you refer to the publisher as Abacus in the latter but as St Martin's Press in the former. Please make all references to the book consistent and get the year and publisher sorted out.

Those are my few comments on this top-notch text. Over to you and I look forward to rejoining you for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Tim riley talk 13:32, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Tim riley: I appreciate your comments and I'll get ontothem as soon as I can. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 13:47, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Tim riley. I'd like to check one thing, please, just to be clear: it looks as if a previous editor has used the St Martin's Press hardback edition for their references: I have been using an e-book version of the 2010 Abacus edition. Should I replace the St Martin's references with references to the Abacus version? (Obviously the page numbers are likely to be different, but I can certainly find them if needs be). 14:04, 17 February 2026 (UTC) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 14:04, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Entirely your choice, but the citations and page numbers should all be to the same edition, whichever that may be, as listed in the References section. Tim riley talk 14:07, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Tim riley. Would it be acceptable to list two editions of the same book in the References section? ArthurTheGardener (talk) 14:45, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wholly acceptable as long as it is clear which citation is pointing to which edition. (As a personal preference I'd go for citations to just one edition, which I think is kinder to your readers, but it's your call.) Tim riley talk 15:18, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Understood! thank you, Tim riley: I'll get to it. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:50, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

ArthurTheGardener, are we moving forward with this? It's gone very quiet. Tim riley talk 20:52, 21 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, @Tim riley Yes, I think I've fixed everything except the citations so far: I've been away for a couple of days, but I'll try to get them finished tomorrow. (I'm changing the Juliet Barker references from the hardback edition (which I don't have) to the e-book, which I can page check.) Does that seem okay? ArthurTheGardener (talk) 21:10, 21 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Absolutely fine. Tim riley talk 21:51, 21 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello Tim riley: I think I've replaced all the old references now: I've also removed some small uncited details and done some some minor cleaning. I think this addresses all your comments: I really appreciate all your time on this. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 12:08, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

We progress but are not quite there yet:

• Bronte or Brontë: you omit the diaeresis in all your citations to the Abacus book, but I see from WorldCat that it is duly dotted on the cover.
• Ref 7: no date? All the other citations to the Abacus book have them.
• The five citations to the St. Martin's Griffin edition need a date (1996, I think) as does its listing in the References section.
• Ref 76: as the book has only 1158 pages, this ref to page 1727 could do with examination.
• Ref 110: and a fortiori the ref to page 9780748122189.
• Ref 117: the link is kaput: try replacing it with this one: https://archive.org/details/druglikebrontedr0000lane/mode/2up?q=%22a+Bront%C3%AB+without+genius%22 (plus the bibliographic details, please).
• Gaskell EC or Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn? If the former, full stops and space between the initials, please.

Over to you. By the way, just checking: are you aware of the wonderful Internet Archive? Free to join and a repository of a vast number of books, including three different editions of Barker's book. Tim riley talk 12:51, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Tim riley, thank you: I'll go back and fix these things - this may take me a couple more days. And I'll look for the Internet archive - thanks for the tip!ArthurTheGardener (talk) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 14:17, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Tim riley, I think I've dealt with these concerns now (I still keep spotting little things I've missed, but then my eyesight isn't what it used to be!) I'll do another pass with fresh eyes tomorrow. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 16:26, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Okay, Tim riley, fingers crossed: I think I've finished for now. 11:49, 23 February 2026 (UTC) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 11:49, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good. It will do now. Tim riley talk 15:02, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   first-rate

   B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   Well referenced.

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   Adequately (though a touch quirkily) referenced.

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   Well illustrated.

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

   Well illustrated.

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

A pleasure to promote this fine article to GA. Tim riley talk 15:02, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your help and advice on this, Tim riley. Much appreciated. 15:12, 23 February 2026 (UTC) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:12, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you to @ArthurTheGardener for all the hard work of cleaning up this page to GA quality, and also to @Tim riley for the thorough review in 2026, 17 years after the last attempt fizzled! pburka (talk) 15:14, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

My pleasure: 17 years! I'm going to try to complete my Brontë streak and have a go at Branwell next. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:18, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply