![]() ![]() The local newspaper publishes a letter about the Brontë wooden soldiers, from an American professor offering £5,000 (at the time a small fortune) to anyone who finds them. When his older sister Jane discovers the secret, she becomes as keen on the soldiers as Max is. He learns from the local parson that they once belonged to the Brontës, who wrote stories about their adventures. They adopt Max as one of their Genii, or protective spirits, and he begins to spend most of his time watching and thinking about them. The soldiers, known as the Twelves, or the Young Men, have different personalities they are brave, intelligent and very independent, not to mention argumentative. He discovers some old toy soldiers in the attic and is surprised and delighted to find that they come to life. Max is an eight-year-old boy whose family has just moved into an old farmhouse in Yorkshire. The two eldest girls had died the preceding year and the four surviving children were 6 to 10 years old they made the soldiers the centre of their imaginative life and their childhood literary efforts. They were given to Branwell, the fourth of six children and only boy, by their father in 1826. ![]() The twelve toy soldiers once belonged to Branwell Brontë and his sisters. ![]()
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