![]() "Much of the saga was formulated only in discussion amongst the creators knowledge was assumed between the collaborators, who had no need to explain circumstances or background in individual stories". They provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for literary vocations in adulthood. The sagas they created were episodic and elaborate, and they exist in incomplete manuscripts, some of which have been published as juvenilia. ![]() Each island's capital was called Glass Town, hence the name of the Glass Town Confederacy. It was only during December 1827 that the world really took shape, when Charlotte suggested that everyone own and manage their own island, which they named after heroic leaders: Charlotte had Wellington, Branwell had Sneaky, Emily had Parry, and Anne had Ross. Glass Town was founded when twelve wooden soldiers were offered to Branwell Brontë by his father, Patrick Brontë, on 5 June 1826. ![]() ![]() The Brontë siblings began writing prose and poetry related to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, Glass Town. See also: The Young Men's Magazine and Gondal (fictional country) ![]()
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