Long before Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë was already shaping worlds. Gondal, her secret saga, was born in the windswept solitude of Haworth, co-created with her sister Anne. Conceived in childhood and nurtured through adolescence, Gondal was a realm of stormy passions, tragic monarchs, and haunting landscapes — a mirror of Emily’s inner life and poetic imagination.

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Though much of Gondal survives only in fragments and diary-like poems, its spirit endures: fierce, romantic, and untamed. It was not merely a game, but a private mythology — a crucible where Emily forged the voice that would later echo through her published work.