Tales of Angria

Angria is set in a fictionalized Africa- romantic pastoral landscapes, natural fertility.
The harshness of Etrei shows the contrast between the Africa of that time- rich in natural resources and then as a wasteland inhabited by savages.

VERDOPOLITAN UNION- consisted of a number of kingdoms each with its own capital.
Angria lay to the east, Senegambia to the west, Frenchy's land (with the capital of Paris) was on the Island east of Angria.
Verdopolis= the old capital of the Verdopolitan Union.
ADRIANOPOLIS- centre of Angrian society

Heroines- one a fair vision of aristocratic elegance, the other a dark-eyed peasant girl. Each, differently beautiful, bears a close resemblance to an engraving from 'Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron'- that the young Charlotte had copied in her teens.

Final confrontation between Zamorna and Northangerland, with its ironic reminder that these swaggering heroes are simply puppets of the mighty Genii - 'Blow me up, and I shall live again.'- p439.


Branwell Bronte handwriting was incredibly small- perhaps to keep the work a secret from his aunt who lived with them. His sentences have hardly any punctuation in them, or capital letters. They are a stream of consciousness and thought.