![]() ![]() Her life often seemed bleak and dull, and her imagination offered her an outlet that sometimes seems to have bordered on some sort of eroticism. Many books recount how she began to lose the sense of what was around her when she was supposed to be teaching. Ultimately, the lure of the imaginary threatens to make the siblings, and Charlotte in particular, lose their grasp on reality.Ĭharlotte’s almost-obsession with her writing and her imaginary worlds seems well-documented. Episodes from imagined Glass Town adventures intersperse the work, showing how fantasy twines with reality. Beginning with a distressed Charlotte on the moors, the story moves back in time to describe how the four created the imaginary world of Glass Town to cope with the deaths of their two older sisters. ![]() Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg is powerful account of the lives of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë, with a particular emphasis on Charlotte after the deaths of all her siblings. ![]()
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