On this day in 1826, Patrick Brontë returned from a visit to Leeds with a box of twelve wooden soldiers for Branwell. Each child picked a soldier for their own, and named it, and they began to record the games they played and the battles they fought with their toys. The world of Angria (and, later, Gondal) was born from these soldiers.
I did not know until just recently, that Patrick brought them all home a toy that day. Branwell's wooden soldiers were the big hit of the group of course . It was nice of him to share them as he did.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenPatrick's part in the Bronte story is vast in many ways ...In this case alone, if he had not brought home those soldiers, would we be having this discussion? One can never tell the result of seemingly small actions