5/8/2023 0 Comments Glass town isabel greenberg![]() The book deals with their real lives on the Yorkshire Moors with some focus on their collective storytelling.Īnd some of it is sad, too, as the family lost several of its members to early deaths. Glass Town, by Isabel Greenberg, is a graphic novel based on that Brontë juvenilia that all four of the children created in childhood and well into adulthood. So I was curious about this book about the childhood of the Bronte family and their having invented a world, Glass Town, that they imaginatively inhabited in a variety of ways. I was in part trying to correct a problem in my YA class teaching that a couple women called attention to: Why is it you celebrate/interrogate all these various genres in your classes but not romance? So I took on that challenge and it led me back to, among other things, the Brontes (and some contemporary YA romances I had been ignoring). ![]() ![]() ![]() In the past couple years I took the opportunity to-after many decades-re-read Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and her sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, and have since taught each of them at least once in my classes. ![]()
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