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is Emily's, Branwell's, Anne's and my land
And now I bid a kind and glad goodbye
To those who o'er my book cast an indulgent eye.
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So ends Tales of the islanders several small books now gathered into one collection that were written by Charlotte Brontë as a teenager, These are the stories she and her siblings imagined for their magic island kingdom, The stories are charmingly written in a very fairytaleesque style, They are written by a child and therefore are sometimes hard to follow when the stories make big turns, which force the reader to read them slowly and devour each sentence.
But in the end that was one of the things that I loved about these little quirky stories, Earlier this year I read sitelinkStancliffe's Hotel and so spotting another slim volume of Bronte juvenilia I grabbed thinking it would be fun, and indeed it is, It is an even more juvenile work than the tales of Angria, the tales of the Islanders was written when Charlotte was thirteen this young people is why we say phones are bad, because in the olden days young people wrote mini books rather than playing on their phones creating political collages like sitelinkCold war Steve though he's not all that young.


I feel there that one can see here the writer than she would come to be in sitelinkVillette and sitelinkJane Eyre at least in terms of the some of the themes, equally there are strong similarities with the later Stancliffe's Hotel, so I am get a sense of where she started from, her direction of travel the turn in to a cul de sac that she took with Angria, and her change of direction into realism with a Gothic subconscious as opposed to the childhood Gothic with Romantic landscapes.


Equally you see here plainly the prejudices that she would cherish throughout her life antiCatholicism, violent fantasies floggings and threatening to set bloodhounds on school children you can see in this her early desire to be a school teacher, Toryism, hero worship I am wondering if Mr Rochester and Paul Emanuel are merely substitutes for her one true love the duke of Wellington, victor over Tipu Sultan Seringapatan is the name of one of the Duke of Wellington's faithful servants in the story and Napoleon, and Prime Minister.
For do they not share his commanding authority, aloof nature, and tendency to hang people for looting now of course you won't take me so seriously, obviously the hanging of looters is largely suppressed in the novels.
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Anyway I have rambled on far too long, for a thirteen year old the work is strikingly sustained, it is also a curious mixture some Arabian Nights, fairy stories, young man escaping the clutches of Catholicism and converting his family to the TRUE FAITH of the Church of England pppurely on the basis of reading the Bible a narrative that I can't help but suspect owes something to her County Down born father pp.
In the context of contemporary British politics it amuses me to see the Irish question looming large over this work, news deludes us into thinking that what is happening now, this instant is important and maybe it is while as political communities we are rather like people abused in childhood and suffering from PTSD throughout our lives, the unresolved issues of two hundred years and more years ago haunt us still perhaps we need less politics and more exorcism

At moments Charlotte writes directly to her readers telling us about the newspaper arriving her father ripping the cover off and the family anxious to learn about the fate of the Catholic Emancipation Act ppI am curious given the general antiCatholicism why they were supporters of this, equally I am curious about the violent fantasies that she is given too is this rage following on from the death of her elder sisters at school, but curiosity leads only to further reading and allegedly the death of cats though I've not noticed that for myself.


So I have reached the end of the review and written virtually nothing about the book on account of digressing from my digressions, any road as I was saying back in the olden days young people didn't have any mobile phones so the Brontë children were at a loose end before bedtime seven PM, rather than wait for Instagram to be invented they each choose an island and a leading man to govern it.
This Charlotte fleshes out in this little book, her island will be governed by the Duke of Wellington as a side job from being Prime Minster, the island has a school hold,pupils designed in the Arabian nights style, complete with prison facility for Cockney children I suspect in this case lower class children in general rather than specifically those born within the sound of Bow bells east London.
There are various 'adventures', sometimes fairies visit and tell stories as nested narratives or the Brontës visit I know, meta fiction already and she was so young, all the children escape the school, divide into four groups each armed with two cannon a rebellion requiring the personal intervention of the Iron Duke and blood hounds, there are several incidents involving the Duke's two sons which require displays of manly emotion and devotion.
I can't say it is a strange mix, as it is a perfectly normal mix of childhood materials fairy tales, the Arabian Nights and more adult reading newspapers for a creative teenager.


It is much less fun than the extravagant and camp Tales of Angria, but I feel oddly lucky to see Charlotte's creativity at such an early age and some of the preoccupations that she will rework in her adult novels I have the supernatural in mind particularly, she is already very interested in landscape and descriptions of landscape such as:"The Sun had just set, the snails were crawling forth from the hedgeside to enjoy that refreshing dampness which immediately precedes dusk.
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