Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Bronte´s juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Bronte as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Bronte as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century´s literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer´s mind. As the contributors show, Bronte´s authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Bronte´s childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings´ works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.
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