Bronte, Texas funding as a result of the closure of the juvenile facility. Bronte, Texas Bronte ( ) is a town in Coke County, Texas, United States. The population was 999 at the 2010 census. Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood, who served from the Amarillo-based District 31 from 1941-1971, was born in 1902 in Coke County near Bronte. Bronte is located at (31.887046, -100.294947). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Although named for English novelist Charlotte Brontë the town name is pronounced as one syllable: "brahnt". As of the
Frances Mary Richardson Currer extensive and valuable library. In 1820 she had a catalogue prepared and privately printed and in 1833 she had Thomas Hartwell Horne prepare a second edition which was printed to reflect further changes. Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote in 1838 that her library was one of the best in the country. Althorpe, Chatsworth and Stowe were the only libraries he thought more extensive. Dibdin is still quoted for calling her the "head of all female book collectors in Europe." He estimated that the library contained 20,000 books, but Currer was one of his patrons. Dibdin also spoke well of the book