As explained in the history, it even has a labyrinthine network of caves beneath, harbouring criminals and low life". The book is at its best when it is really able to tie Glass Town to the real life experience of the Brontës without having the narrating future Charlotte explicitly tie them together. Twice married, firstly to Lord George Vernon (sometimes known as Lord Dance), and secondly to the uncle of Charles and Zamorna, Richard, Marquis of Wellesley. The book in question is Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg, a title which promises to introduce readers to the Brontës’ worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, as well as providing the biographical background which led to the creation of these worlds and characters such as Zamorna, Mary Percy, the Earl of Northangerland, and Glass Town gossip and celebrated author, Charles Wellesley.

Glass Town is a book to savour, a captivating mash-up of fact and fantasy, with something wonderful on every page.

It shows the four kingdoms run by the siblings: Wellington’s Land, Parry’s Land, Ross’s Land and Sneaky’s Land. Mina Laury – Mina is the daughter of Sergeant Edward “Ned” Laury, a soldier turned bodysnatcher who later becomes loyal to the Duke of Wellington.

But Emily and Anne grow frustrated with their elder siblings’ dominance, and abandon Glass Town to create the new land of Gondal.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". She is also the illustrator of several children’s books and an associate lecturer at University of the Arts London. I also thought that Greenberg’s text could have focused a little more on the Brontës’ determination to become authors and the fact that their juvenilia was a long literary apprenticeship on the road to success in adulthood. As Wellington was Charlotte’s ‘Young Man’ and Parry was Emily’s, this is evidence of a partnership of the imagination between the two sisters.

Isolated on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, the Brontë siblings spent their formative years squeezing minute script on to precious paper, collaborating and competing to tell slyly overblown sagas of imaginary lands – Angria, Gondal and the great city of Glass Town. Culture24 highlighted that "the Brontës featured themselves as Gods in their worlds, of which they wrote long sagas in tiny micro-script, as well as using both fictional and real-life characters, reminiscent of the creations of JRR Tolkein [sic] and CS Lewis. He is father to Mary (third wife of Zamorna), William, Edward, and Henry (who are disowned at birth by him) by Maria Henrietta.If you asked any diehard comics fan to pick a title sporting all of these things, they likely wouldn’t first point to a work by 1800’s English poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë. Emma Butcher wrote, in the Victorian Periodicals Review, that "the Brontë children grew up in an era when post-Waterloo commentary on events and personalities kept the Napoleonic Wars at the forefront of popular discussion. Napoleon Buonaparte – Originally Branwell Brontë’s chief man in the Young Men’s Play, antagonist of Glass Town, and rival to Charlotte Brontë’s chief man, Wellington. The mention of the toy soldiers dates the little book to at least 1826, when the toy soldiers were given to the children". Following Mina’s rejection, Hartford drunkenly duels with Zamorna, and sustains injuries he is still recovering from during the events of Stancliffe’s Hotel (1838).