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". Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Charlotte's "predilection for romantic settings, passionate relationships, and high society is at odds with Branwell's obsession with battles and politics and her young sisters' homely North Country realism, none the less at this stage there is still a sense of the writings as a family enterprise".Claire Harman, a British biographer, highlighted that the Brontë juvenilia consists of poetry, plays, and magazines "with accompanying maps and histories" and is over 50,000 words; "much of it set in imaginary places like Glass Town and Angria, with interlocking casts of countless characters.

Viscount Richton – Flower is an early pseudonym of Branwell Brontë who narrates tales including The Politics of Verdopolis (1833), Real Life in Verdopolis (1833), and The Wool is Rising (1834). I have a wide interest in history ranging from Wars of the Roses, country houses, Stuarts, Georgians, Louis XIV, Napoleon and criminals. Flowery language that makes a novel immersive and delicious to the mind and ear can be cloistering and congestive when adapted into spoken panels.It shows the four kingdoms run by the siblings: Wellington’s Land, Parry’s Land, Ross’s Land and Sneaky’s Land. There is friction and bitterness between Quashia and Wellington’s oldest son, Zamorna, and in the later tales he aids his ally, Alexander Percy, in his invasion of Angria against Zamorna. At times depicted as a dandy alongside his friend Charles Townshend, the two eventually drift apart with Sir William occupying a more serious role in the stories and society According to the British Museum, the Brontë siblings named their toy soldiers "the Twelves or ‘Young Men’ and created names and personalities that brought them to life.

A friend of Lord Hartford and Zamorna, he is also the commander of the Angrian forces and governor of the province of Etrei.

And it will prove to be one of the most beautiful, most entertaining graphic novels you’ll ever come across. Harvard holds nine, the Brontë Museum at the family home in England owns a few, and the remaining are scattered among museums and private collectors". Napoleonic Periodicals and the Childhood Imagination: The Influence of War Commentary on Charlotte and Branwell Brontë's Glass Town and Angria". The main problem, though, is that the portions of the book taking place in Glass Town are not especially thrilling. 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.

If you want an in depth look at the large and varied juvenile output of the Brontës I would always recommend Nicola Friar’s remarkable blog on that matter – but this serves as a fascinating introduction to what can be a complex subject.Zamorna is awarded the Kingdom of Angria by the Verdopolitan government following his success in the War of Encroachment against the Ashantees. He has been faking it for the better part of twenty years, and is now too embarrassed to ask for help. In this, it has almost a Magic Realism touch to it, as the lines between reality and the imagination become blurred.