One of these worlds was called Glass Town, and it appears in the Brontës’ juvenilia.Ībout 200 years later, in comes Isabel Greenberg. Perhaps in part to deal with their sorrows, the remaining four Brontë children invented fantasy worlds into which they would escape and weave sensational dramas – no doubt practicing for the masterpieces the sisters would later publish. As young children, the four siblings suffered the loss of their mother and two sisters in quick succession. But the humans she focuses on this time just happen to be some of the greatest storytellers in literary history.Ĭharlotte, Anne, Emily, and Branwell Brontë were writing stories well before Jane Eyre ever set foot in Thornfield Hall. Much like in Greenberg’s other books, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The 100 Nights of Hero, Greenberg decides to focus on how stories impact our experiences as humans. It’s not an alternate history or a dramatized version of their lives that shows where their inspiration came from. It is not a retelling of any of their classic novels. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës, by Isabel Greenberg, is not a biography of the Brontë sisters. “I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.”-Charlotte Brontë
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