The Several Stages of Gondal

Abstract

The poetic fragments relating to Gondal and Gaaldine, the imaginary countries of Emily and Anne Brontë, have been considered to imply a coherent whole, and efforts have been made to construct a possible narrative round these fragments, with a few other names of places and characters. This article will assert that there were three or more distinguishable phases in the creation of Gondal, reminding readers that the queen of Gondal, ‘A. G. A.’, lasted only four years of the eleven or more of its existence.