Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak. This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës’ escape from the realities of their lives. children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town. It is in response to this loss that the four remaining Bront. The story begins in 1825, with the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest siblings. 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. Easily read in a single sitting, Glass Town might provide a kind of meta-escapism for a moment in time when many of us feel that fiction is brighter than reality.A graphic novel about the Bront ë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood

Her drawing style is well suited to the fluid story structure, as she gracefully moves in and out of the Brontë dreamworld while the siblings struggle to choose between life and fantasy. Greenberg’s illustrations are scratchy and childlike, but detailed and evocative too. Greenberg merges the biographical Brontë story with the landscape of their juvenalia: the “half-abandoned stories” of Glass Town are pictured in deep, almost-black blues, rusty reds and bursts of warm orange-yellow the real world of sickness and uncertainty quite literally pales by comparison. To cope, the remaining four siblings – Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne – immerse themselves in an imagined world they call Glass Town. Two of the six Brontë children, Maria and Elizabeth, have died after contracting tuberculosis at Cowan Bridge School in Lancashire. It begins and ends with funerals: Greenberg opens her version after “a sticky, sickly summer” of “closed doors and anxious faces”. Glass Town is a vivid historical fiction following the lives of the Brontë family, in the form of a graphic novel. I was drawn towards a book that has been sat on my shelf for a month or so: Isabel Greenberg’s Glass Town. But after hours and hours spent scrolling through the news, I’ve found myself desperate for some time entirely away from screens. As we enter an eerily bright spring that most of us will be spending indoors, many newspapers and charitable friends on social media are recommending TV shows and films that can be streamed and watched from the sofa.

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