List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Charlotte Bronte: -- History of the year -- Origin of the O'Dears' -- Origin of the Islanders' -- Two Romantic tales -- Twelve adventurers -- Adventure in Ireland -- Tales of the Islanders, volume 2 -- Interesting passage in the lives of some eminent men of the present time -- Young men's magazine, October 1830 -- Albion and Marina -- Spell, an extravaganza -- We wove a web in childhood -- Roe Head Journal: -- Well here I am at Roe Head -- Now as I have a little bit of time -- All this day I have been in a dream -- I'm just going to write because I cannot help it -- My compliments to the weather -- About a week since I got a letter from Branwell -- Mina Laury -- Caroline Vernon -- Farewell to Angria -- Liar detected -- Ode on the celebration of the great African games -- Pirate a tale -- Politics of Verdopolis -- Angrian battle song -- Percy's musings upon the battle of Edwardston -- Mary's prayer -- EmilyBronte: -- High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending -- AGA: There shines the moon, at noon of night -- AGA to AE: Lord of Elbe on Elbe hill -- Alone I sat the summer day -- Night is darkening round me -- I'll come when thou art saddest -- AGA to AS: O wander no so far away! -- Arthur Ex[ina] to Marcius: In dungeons dark I cannot sing -- Song by J Brenzaida to GS: I knew not't was so dire a crime -- F DeSamara to AGA: Light up thy halls! 'this closing day -- Little while, a little while -- By R Gleneden: From our evening fireside now -- AGA to the bluebell -- I am the only being whose doom -- And now the housedog stretched once more -- Well, some may hate and some may scorn (stanza to-1846) -- If greif for greif can touch thee -- Riches I hold in light esteem' (Old stoic 1846) -- Shall earth no more inspire thee -- Geraldine: Twas night, her comrades gathered all -- Rosina: Weeks of wild delirium past -- Yes holy be thy resting place -- MG-for the US: Twas yesterday at early dawn -- EW to AGA: How few of all the hearts that loved -- Linnet in the rocky dells (Song 1846) -- To imagination (To imagination 1846) -- From a dungeon wall in the southern college -- R Alcona to J Brenzaida: 'Cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above thee! (Remembrance 1846) -- AE and RC: Heavy hangs the raindrop (including "Child of delight! With sunbright hair) -- Julian M and AG Rochelle: Silent is the house -- all are laid asleep (1846 part as the Prisoner) -- Why ask to know the date-the clime? -- Why ask to know what date what clime -- Anne Bronte: -- Verse by Lady Geralda -- Alexander and Zenobia -- Voice from the dungeon -- Captive's dream -- North wind -- Parting-(including The lady of Alzerno's hall') -- Verses to a child -- Fragment (self-congratulation 1846) -- Lines written at Thorp Green (appeal 1846) -- Consolation (The Consolation 1846) -- Memory (Memory 1846) -- Lines inscribed on the wall of a dungeon in the southern P of I -- Call me away -- Song: 'We know where deepest lies the snow' -- Song-: Come to the banquet -- Mirth and mourning -- Weep not too much, my darling -- Z's dream -- Gloomily the clouds are sailing -- Appendix A: Diary papers -- Appendix B: Gondal notes -- Explanatory news -- Glossary of main characters and places in the glass town -- Glossary of main characters and places in the glass town and Angrian Saga -- Glossary of main characters and places in the Gondal Saga -- Index of titles and first lines.