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Live online lecture with Kate Eliot on the Brontes’ strange and brilliant Juvenilia.
In her 'History of a Year' (1829), the young Charlotte Brontë began to record the vivid imaginary worlds she and her siblings created as children: the fictional civilisations of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal, imaginary lands inhabited by adventuring soldier-heroes and strange genii as well as prototypes of the clever and resourceful female protagonists who would populate the sisters’ mature fiction.
The children kept remarkable records, with a series of hand-printed and meticulously bound 'little books', alongside poems, diary papers, essays and illustrations. No other writers left such a wealth of childhood writings.
In this session we will explore what the writings of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal can tell us about the Brontës' early writing practices.
Set Reading
The Brontes, Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, ed. Christine Alexander (Oxford World’s Classics, 2010)
Optional Further Reading
Carol Bock, 'Our Plays: The Brontë Juvenilia’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes, ed. Heather Glen (CUP, 2002).
Saturday 5 September 2026
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or Lunchtime in the Americas
Lecture fee
£33.00 full price
£30.00 CAMcard holders
£30.00 students on a low income
Prices include VAT at 20%
Zoom link
We will send you a Zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the course begins. If the link does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session begins, so we can re-send.
Recordings
The lectures will be recorded so that participants can listen again for 48 hours after the live event. The seminars are not recorded.
If you cannot attend a course you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a lecture or course. But if you contact us in advance, we might be able to transfer your booking to a different course.
Live online lecture with Kate Eliot on the Brontes’ strange and brilliant Juvenilia.
In her 'History of a Year' (1829), the young Charlotte Brontë began to record the vivid imaginary worlds she and her siblings created as children: the fictional civilisations of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal, imaginary lands inhabited by adventuring soldier-heroes and strange genii as well as prototypes of the clever and resourceful female protagonists who would populate the sisters’ mature fiction.
The children kept remarkable records, with a series of hand-printed and meticulously bound 'little books', alongside poems, diary papers, essays and illustrations. No other writers left such a wealth of childhood writings.
In this session we will explore what the writings of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal can tell us about the Brontës' early writing practices.
Set Reading
The Brontes, Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, ed. Christine Alexander (Oxford World’s Classics, 2010)
Optional Further Reading
Carol Bock, 'Our Plays: The Brontë Juvenilia’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes, ed. Heather Glen (CUP, 2002).
Saturday 5 September 2026
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or Lunchtime in the Americas
Lecture fee
£33.00 full price
£30.00 CAMcard holders
£30.00 students on a low income
Prices include VAT at 20%
Zoom link
We will send you a Zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the course begins. If the link does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session begins, so we can re-send.
Recordings
The lectures will be recorded so that participants can listen again for 48 hours after the live event. The seminars are not recorded.
If you cannot attend a course you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a lecture or course. But if you contact us in advance, we might be able to transfer your booking to a different course.