Glass Town: Isabel Greenberg

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Charlotte Brontë lists the names of the Twelves as: Marcus O’Donell, Ferdinand Cortez, Felix de Rothsay, Eugene Cameron, Harold Fitzgeorge, Henry Clinton, Francis Stewart, Ronald Traquair, Ernest Fortescue, Gustavus Dunally, Frederick Brunswick, and Arthur Wellesley.

The font used is almost script like, giving the words the feeling that they could have been handwritten by the actual Brontës.However, this isn’t the case in the graphic novel version of Charlotte Brontë’s Glass Town, reimagined by Isabel Greenberg. Charlotte's "predilection for romantic settings, passionate relationships, and high society is at odds with Branwell's obsession with battles and politics and her young sisters' homely North Country realism, none the less at this stage there is still a sense of the writings as a family enterprise". It is in response to this loss that the four remaining Brontë children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town.

Those who appreciate historical fiction and classic literature will be engrossed by this reimagining of the childhoods of these literary luminaries. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. There is friction and bitterness between Quashia and Wellington’s oldest son, Zamorna, and in the later tales he aids his ally, Alexander Percy, in his invasion of Angria against Zamorna. He is also the father of the illegitimate Caroline Vernon, whose mother is Percy’s former mistress, Louisa Vernon. After several invasions, Zamorna is exiled, but he later successfully reclaims Angria with the help of characters such as the Duke of Fidena and Warner Howard Warner.

If you are looking for more of a history of the Brontë juvenilia and individual narratives, then head over to my page The Brontë Juvenilia to find out more. After his first wife is poisoned he marries Maria Henrietta Wharton and lives happily, seemingly a reformed character until her death from consumption.