{"product_id":"the-child-writer-from-austen-to-woolf-paperback-9780521128384","title":"The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (Paperback) 9780521128384","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Child Writer from Austen to Woolf\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristine Alexander (Edited by), Juliet McMaster (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521128384, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: '… a highly original volume of essays, which, in reconfiguring talented nineteenth-century children as voyeurs, spies and witnesses of the adult world, opens up considerably more than just the field of juvenilia for further research.' Journal of Victorian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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 Brontë, 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 directions for research in this lively and fascinating topic.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Childhood Writings: 1. Introduction Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nineteenth-century juvenilia: a survey Christine Alexander\u003cbr\u003e 3. Play and apprenticeship: the culture of family magazines Christine Alexander\u003cbr\u003e 4. What Daisy knew: the epistemology of the child writer Juliet McMaster\u003cbr\u003e 5. Defining and representing literary juvenilia Christine Alexander\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Individual Authors: 6. Jane Austen, that disconcerting 'Child' Margaret Doody\u003cbr\u003e 7. Endless imitation: Austen's and Byron's juvenilia Rachel Brownstein\u003cbr\u003e 8. Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor\u003cbr\u003e 9. Autobiography and juvenilia: the fractured self in Charlotte Brontë's early manuscripts Christine Alexander\u003cbr\u003e 10. The child is parent to the author: Branwell Brontë Victor Neufeldt\u003cbr\u003e 11. Choosing a model: George Eliot's 'Prentice Hand' Juliet McMaster\u003cbr\u003e 12. Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskin's juvenilia David C. Hanson\u003cbr\u003e 13. Louisa May Alcott's juvenilia Daniel Shealy\u003cbr\u003e 14. Dr Arnold's granddaughter: Mary Augusta Ward Gillian Boughton\u003cbr\u003e 15. New woman, new boots: Amy Levy as child journalist Naomi Hetherington\u003cbr\u003e 16. An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century juvenilia Lesley Peterson and Leslie Robertson.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002459115800,"sku":"9780521128384","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521128384i_d7a78a99-b67b-4bea-8f43-1780d4a6b05f.jpg?v=1691371915","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-child-writer-from-austen-to-woolf-paperback-9780521128384","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}