The Child writer from Austen to Woolf

Abstract

Part I. Childhood Writings: 1. Introduction Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster 2. Nineteenth-century juvenilia: a survey Christine Alexander 3. Play and apprenticeship: the culture of family magazines Christine Alexander 4. What Daisy knew: the epistemology of the child writer Juliet McMaster 5. Defining and representing literary juvenilia Christine Alexander Part II. Individual Authors: 6. Jane Austen, that disconcerting 'Child' Margaret Doody 7. Endless imitation: Austen's and Byron's juvenilia Rachel Brownstein 8. Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor 9. Autobiography and juvenilia: the fractured self in Charlotte Bronte's early manuscripts Christine Alexander 10. The child is parent to the author: Branwell Bronte Victor Neufeldt 11. Choosing a model: George Eliot's 'Prentice Hand' Juliet McMaster 12. Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskin's juvenilia David C. Hanson 13. Louisa May Alcott's juvenilia Daniel Shealy 14. Dr Arnold's granddaughter: Mary Augusta Ward Gillian Boughton 15. New woman, new boots: Amy Levy as child journalist Naomi Hetherington 16. An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century juvenilia Lesley Peterson and Leslie Robertson.