In this highly original collection leading scholars address the largely overlooked genre of childhood writings by major authors, and explore the genesis of genius. The book includes essays on the first writings of Jane Austen, Byron, Elizabeth Barrett, Charlotte and Branwell Bront? Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf. All began writing for pleasure as children, and later developed their professional ambitions. In bursts of creative energy, these young authors, as well as those like Daisy Ashford, who wrote only as a child, produced prose, verse, imitation and parody, wild romance and down-to-earth daily records. Their juvenile writings are fascinating both in themselves, and for the promise of greater works to come. The volume includes an invaluable and thorough annotated bibliography of juvenilia, and will stimulate many new directions for research in this lively and fascinating topic.

PART I: CHILDHOOD WRITINGS 2 Nineteenth-century juvenilia: a survey 11 Christine Alexander 3 Play and apprenticeship: the culture of family magazines 31 Christine Alexander 4 What Daisy knew: the epistemology of the child writer 51 Juliet McMaster 5 Defining and representing literary juvenilia 70 Christine Alexander PART II: INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS 6 Jane Austen, that disconcerting Child?101 Margaret Anne Doody 7 Endless imitation: Austen's and Byron's juvenilia 122 Rachel M. Brownstein 8 Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: it four I first mounted Pegasus?138 Beverly Taylor 9 Autobiography and juvenilia: the fractured self in Charlotte Bront?s early manuscripts 154 Christine Alexander 10 The child is parent to the author: Branwell Bront?173 Victor A. Neufeldt 11 Choosing a model: George Eliot's Prentice hand 188 Juliet McMaster 12 Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskin's juvenilia 200 David C. Hanson 13 Louisa May Alcott's juvenilia 222 Daniel Shealy 14 Dr Arnold's granddaughter: Mary Augusta Ward 237 Gillian E. Boughton 15 New Woman, New Boots? Amy Levy as child journalist 254 Naomi Hetherington 16 An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century juvenilia 269 Lesley Peterson and Leslie Robertson Index 304

Christine Alexander is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales. Juliet McMaster is University Professor Emerita of English at the University of Alberta.

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