The Green Dwarf (Annotated)

Written in 1833, The Green Dwarf is one of Charlotte Brontë's youthful "Glass Town" romances, a compact but exuberant tale of disguise, rivalry, abduction, and martial adventure. Its plot moves with melodramatic swiftness, drawing on the historical romance of Walter Scott, the Gothic tale, and the Byronic cult of the mysterious outsider. Though apprentice work, it already reveals Brontë's fascinat...