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Glass Town: Isabel Greenberg

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Mina Laury – Mina is the daughter of Sergeant Edward “Ned” Laury, a soldier turned bodysnatcher who later becomes loyal to the Duke of Wellington. In addition to contacting libraries and archives, Alexander traced old sales catalogues and "travelled all over the United States and Canada on a Greyhound bus, knocking on doors of private collectors, eventually finding more than 100 unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscripts and an equal number of unknown drawings and paintings by the Brontes". As stated above, Anne and Emily broke away to form their own world of Gondal with Charlotte and Branwell developing Glass Town and moving towards Angria.

It was initiated by Charlotte and her brother Branwell; Emily and Anne Brontë later participated in further developing the stories and geography of its world, although they also broke away to conceptualize Gondal, while Charlotte conceptualized Angria. In the narratives they are natives of the Kingdom of Ashantee, an area of West Africa colonized by the Twelves in the earliest stories. He has been faking it for the better part of twenty years, and is now too embarrassed to ask for help. She resides at Rivaulx in the Hawkescliffe estate, seemingly living to serve Zamorna, and at one point in the stories chooses to follow him into exile.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. Hector Matthias Mirabeau was born in Wellingtonsland but in the later tales he has been exiled to Paris where he attempts to seduce Percy’s teenage daughter, Caroline Vernon, in the the 1839 novelette of the same name. I’d have liked a bit more information on Northangerland as Branwell’s alter-ego and pseuondym although I enjoyed the reference to him being a rogue. Proud, loyal, and moral, she is seen by many critics and readers as a precursor to Jane Eyre due to her rejection of Sir William Percy, who desires her to become his mistress.

In Nicola Friar's novel A Tale of Two Glass Towns, Glass Town has loosely inspired the forthcoming novel. Zamorna later keeps Percy’s mistress Louisa Vernon, a prisoner and becomes guardian to Louisa and Percy’s daughter, Caroline, who harbours a passion for the King. If it’s a fantastic comic – and I think that it is – then it’s also one of the best books about the Brontës’ juvenilia ever written. k.a Montmorenci- A Verdopoltian nobleman and wayward companion of Alexander Percy in his youth before becoming a political ally in his wars against Zamorna.

A friend of Lord Hartford and Zamorna, he is also the commander of the Angrian forces and governor of the province of Etrei. It could be a quick read, but I found myself lingering over each page – it’s certainly an object of beauty as well, that would enliven any shelf or coffee table.

Occasionally these worlds would also cross over with characters appearing in Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal narratives. It also provides a 21st century reader friendly introduction to the magical but confusing and sprawling worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal. Her drawings are harsh and deliberately untidy, channeling the frantic, awkward passion of a precocious child. If you’re a Brontë fan, you know that it’s not going to have a happy ending but there is so much to enjoy before the end comes! Isabel Greenberg is the only one who could bring us here, having honed a perfect style that feels timeless, dark, and a little otherworldly.

Florence Marian Hume – The second wife of Zamorna in the earlier narratives and the mother of his son, Arthur Julius Wellesley. An exquisitely crafted weaving of the real and imagined lives of the Brontës, Greenberg digs deep into Brontë juvenilia to fully submerge the reader in the chaotic and confusing world of Glass Town. Greenberg contrasts the tropical sky of Glass Town with the wind and rain of the moors, dim English interiors with pungent reds and yellows, picturing epic mountains and seas, lakes of ink and giant quills. It was only during December 1827 that the world really took shape, when Charlotte suggested that everyone own and manage their own island, which they named after heroic leaders: Charlotte had Wellington, Branwell had Sneaky, Emily had Parry, and Anne had Ross. Branwell, of whom so much was expected, died an unfulfilled alcoholic, while his sisters were held back by convention – Emily, Charlotte and Anne published under assumed masculine names.

It’s a wonderful introduction to the essence of the Brontë juvenilia and some of the characters, if not a perfect introduction to the actual saga.

Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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