The Brontë Juvenilia

Hello and welcome to The Brontë Juvenilia. Consider this something of an index for my posts about the early fiction, or juvenilia, of the Brontë siblings which is set in Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal. Unfortunately very little survives of the Gondal saga which was born in 1831 when the youngest siblings, Emily and Anne, grew tired of their characters playing second string to those of Charlotte and Branwell in Glass Town. Consequently there are far more posts on here about Charlotte and Branwell’s work simply because the bulk of that has survived the centuries. I have started to received some guests posts on this subject, the links to which you can find below. 

Tales of the Genii (edited by myself) is now available from The Crow Emporium – click here to buy.

My essay on Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia has been published in Volume 2, Number 2 of The Journal of Juvenilia Studies. The title is “A New Approach to Autobiography and Juvenilia: Re-Examining Charlotte Brontë’s Assumption of Power in her Paracosmic Counterworld”. It’s free to access online and I’d love it if you could take the time to give it a read. The link to the piece can be accessed by clicking here.

An Introduction to the Juvenilia

• An Introduction to the Brontë Juvenilia
• Toy Soldiers, Tiny Books, and an Enormous World
• People and Places from the Brontë Juvenilia Part One: Glass Town and Angria
• The Importance of the Child Author
• Two Romantic Tales by Charlotte Brontë -Part One: The Twelve Adventurers
• List of Available Juvenilia

Charlotte Brontë

• A-Z of Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia (Part One)
• Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor: Juvenilia or Mature Novel?
• Charlotte Brontë’s The Duke of Zamorna
• Charlotte Brontë’s Stancliffe’s Hotel
• The Search After Happiness Review
• The Poetaster Review
• Happy Birthday, Charlotte Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë: The Lost Manuscripts
• The Green Dwarf by Charlotte Brontë
• The Young Men’s Magazine and Charlotte Brontë’s Strange Events
• Remembering Charlotte Brontë
• I’m Just Going to Write Because I Cannot Help It: Reality Versus Fantasy in Charlotte Brontë’s Roe Head Journal.
• Two Romantic Tales by Charlotte Brontë -Part One: The Twelve Adventurers
• Two Romantic Tales by Charlotte Brontë -Part Two: An Adventure in Ireland
• The Enfant by Charlotte Brontë
• A Tiny Book, a Big Campaign, and an Even Bigger World.
• Charlotte Brontë’s The Search After Happiness, Good Editing, and the Brontë Juvenilia
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, Caroline Vernon? Charlotte Brontë, Joyce Carol Oates, and the Adolescent Female

Branwell Brontë

• Branwell Brontë’s The Politics of Verdopolis
• Is Weary Branwell at Rest? Shedding Light on the Brontë Boy
• Branwell Brontë’s The Pirate

Emily Brontë

• A Glimpse of Gondal in Charlotte Brontë’s A Day at Parry’s Palace
• The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë (Juvenilia Press Edition)

Anne Brontë

• The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë (Juvenilia Press Edition)

Everything Else

• Beyond the Brontë Juvenilia: Discovering More Child Authors
• For more information on Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia, I’d love it if you stopped by The Journal of Juvenilia Studies where you can read my essay (for free), “Autobiography, Wish-Fulfilment, and Juvenilia. The ‘Fractured Self’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Paracosmic Counterworld”.

Guest Posts

• We’re Raising a Bunch of Brontës: Guest Post on the Brontë Juvenilia by Tracy Neis
• The Brontë Juvenilia at the British Library: Guest Post by Tom A.