Through a combination of quotes from the stories originally penned by the Brontës, biographical information about them, and Greenberg's vivid comic book illustrations, readers will find themselves enraptured by this fascinating imaginary world. Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak. All of a sudden I was shipping lamps to Hong Kong and England. This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës’ escape from the realities of their lives. (Francisca Isabel Figueroa) Advertisement. 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. (Abrams Comicarts) Tian Veasna’s swiftly paced, overwhelming graphic. children-Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. Isabel Greenberg From Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Bronts, written and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg. Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Bront. She is an associate lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. A graphic novel about the Bront ë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood Isabel studied illustration at the University of Brighton and an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art.
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