Adorkable: Branwell is endearingly awkward and naive, especially in the first few episodes when he yearns for recognition of his talent in London. He's arrogant and boastful, but at the same time full of insecurities. You have to pity him in the scene where he finally visits London and is totally frightened and overwhelmednote Biographer Juliet Barker has discovered that Branwell never even applied to the Royal Academy, although considered it as an option and drafted a letter. He may have visited London for other reasons. Also, Charlotte had two of her drawings accepted for a public exhibition in the city of Leeds in 1834, a year before Branwell was said to have gone to London. The whole "Branwell went to the Academy, was overwhelmed into total inferiority by the staggering genius of the art on display, spent all his money on booze and crawled home in disgrace" plot was based on an Angria story! Angria was the Bronte children's imaginary kingdom. Wentworth, a young man who goes to Verdopolis, the capitol, is blown away by its glittering magnificence, but everyone always is; he goes on to join the Army and become a spy. It's some of his best writing, and early biographers assumed it was based on his own experience.
