However, her devotion to her disgraced brother, Captain Henry Hastings, results in unhappiness and she risks the wrath of the law to protect him. Florence Marian Hume – The second wife of Zamorna in the earlier narratives and the mother of his son, Arthur Julius Wellesley. The whereabouts of the remaining one have been unknown since around 1930, according to the museum)".

works so well because while the Brontës’ own story is absolutely devastating, the Glass Town scenes are full of fun… They made their world for the sheer pleasure of making, and that pleasure radiates off Greenberg’s pages too. Glass Town is the perfect blend of historical fiction and fantasy and it will suck you into the reality and alternative reality the Brontë children lived in. S. and England contain significant amounts of manuscripts, sometimes dividing single works among them; and numerous private collectors and other libraries have a page or more, all of which had to be found, identified, dated and virtually stitched into original places to create the chronological record". He is also the father of the illegitimate Caroline Vernon, whose mother is Percy’s former mistress, Louisa Vernon. However, he is relegated to the role of co-narrator in Henry Hastings (1839) alongside his former friend, Sir William Percy, which may be a curious prelude to the opening of Charlotte’s novel The Professor (published 1857).The Glass Town writings began in December 1827, and as largely unfinished manuscripts, they constitute the juvenilia of the Brontë siblings. In an early manuscript (1826–28) by Charlotte Brontë, "there is a map, which is carefully divided into four provinces (one for each sibling). However, the original incarnation, as well as his creators, were very much a product of their own time. The story of “Glass Town” follows Charlotte, the last living Brontë sister as she reminisces to one of her old characters about her life, and the stories she and her siblings created as children. He initially appoints Percy as Prime Minister who later turns against him alongside Ardrah and the Reformist Party.

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. The teenage Caroline Vernon is particularly fascinated by her and Lord Hartford is in love with her.Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. k.a Duchess of Zamorna, Queen of Angria – Mary Henrietta Percy is Zamorna’s third wife and mother of his children, legitimate daughter of Alexander Percy, sister to Edward and Sir William Percy, and half-sister to Caroline Vernon. The two play out an intense love-hate relationship throughout the Glass Town and Angrian stories with Zamorna using his wife Mary, daughter of Percy, as a pawn.

Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Brontë children—Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne.Genii – The four Chief Genii are Talli, Branni, Emmi, and Anni (spellings vary) who are supernatural beings and guardians in the Glass Town stories. Thanks to Jonathan Cape for providing the high res images of Quashia, the Parsonage, Charles and Charlotte, and Glass Town. Four children; Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so vivid that they can step right into it. First of all, if you would like information to the background and stories which form the Brontë juvenilia canon then you can find many posts right here on Brontë Babe Blog covering these aspects.