Juvenilia Press Reviews
2024
Burke, Lois. Review of Felicia Hemans: Selected Early Poems. Edited by Christine Alexander and Pamela Nutt (Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2021). Victoriographies 13.3 (2024): 340–353. https://sam2.arts.unsw.edu.au/juvenilia/assets/files/reviews/burke-2023-christine-alexander-and-pamela-nutt-eds-felicia-hemans-selected-early-poems.pdf
2022
Hisamori, Kazuko. "A Conspiracy with Twelve-Year-Old Jane Austen: Juliet McMaster's Illustrations for The Beautifull Cassandra", Humanities 11.5 (2022). Published 14 Sept 2022. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/5/119/htm
Howell, Coral Ann. Review of Early Writings by Margaret Atwood. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Donna Couto (Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2020). British Journal of Canadian Studies 34.1 (Spring 2022): 136-7. https://sam2.arts.unsw.edu.au/juvenilia/assets/files/2022-atwood-review.pdf
Grundy, Isobel. Review of Early Writings by Margaret Atwood. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Donna Couto (Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2020). Journal of Juvenilia Studies 4.2 (April 2022): 147-48. https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/article/view/78/89
2021
Morse, Deborah Denenholz. Review of The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Bronte. Edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann (Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2019). Journal of Juvenilia Studies 3.2 (September 2021): 128-30. https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/article/view/68/62
2020
Friar, Nicola. "The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë, edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann". Bronte Babe Blog. Friday, 15 November 2020. https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/the-diary-papers-of-emily-and-anne-bronte-juvenilia-press-edition/?wref=tp
Lara, Cristina. "The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë, edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann". Brontë Blog. Saturday, October 10, 2020. http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-diary-papers-of-emily-and-anne.html
Sonya Nevin, review of Branwell Bronte, The History of the Young Men, edited by William Baker et al., Sydney, Australia (Juvenilia Press, 2010) in Our Mythical Childhood Survey, created as part of Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/myth-survey/item/989
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Sonya Nevin, review of Branwell Bronte, Blackwood’s Young Men’s Magazine, edited by Christine Alexander and assisted by Vanessa Benson, Sydney, Australia (Juvenilia Press, 2010) in Our Mythical Childhood Survey, created as part of Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and GlobalChallenges
http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/myth-survey/item/990
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2019
Cairney, Trevor. “The Early Work of Great Writers: Insights from childhood writing”. Literacy, families and learning. Wednesday, January 23, 2019.
http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/search?q=Juvenilia+Press&max-results=20&by-date=true
Merchant, Peter. The Journals and Poems of Marjory Fleming, edited by Leslie Robertson and Juliet McMaster, with others (Juvenilia Press, 2018). JSS (forthcoming 2019).
Pearson, Sara L. Branwell Brontë’s The Pirate, edited by Christine Alexander, with Joetta Harty and Benjamin Drexler (Juvenilia Press, 2018). Brontë Studies, 44.3 (July 2019), 329–30.
Stoneman, Patsy. Branwell Brontë’s The Pirate, edited by Christine Alexander, with Joetta Harty and Benjamin Drexler (Juvenilia Press, 2018). Journal of Juvenilia Studies 2.1 (2019), 59–61.
https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/article/view/31/24/5
2018
Prunean, Alexandra. Ethel Turner’sTales from the Parthenon andThat Young Rebel, edited by Pamela Nutt with others (Juvenilia Press, 2014 and 2015). JJS 1 (2018): 85–89.
https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/article/view/15/11
2017
Fullerton, Susannah. “All About Austen”. The Weekend Australian. July 15–16, 2017, 9.“Austen wrote only six completed novels, two unfinished ones, her hilarious juvenilia (all beautifully produced by the Juvenilia Press, based at UNSW, which gives students an opportunity to learn about editing the early writings of famous authors), letters and a few poems.”
2016
Editorial. “William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016: Long List”. [Elizabeth Thompson Butler’s Waterloo Diary] The British Art Journal 17.1, 2.
Riddle, Naomi. >Ethel Turner, Tales from the Parthenon and Eleanor Dark’s Juvenilia. Southerly 76.1 “Words and Music”.
http://southerlyjournal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Riddle-reviews-Dark-and-Turner-1.pdf
Soya, Michiko. “Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits”. Jane Austen Studies: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of Japan 10 (June 2016).
2015
Uda, Kazuko. “Maria Edgeworth’s The Double Disguise”. Brontë Studies Japan 6.1 (November 2015).
2014
Terry, Sue. “Eleanor Dark’s Juvenilia”. Whispering Gums Blog. 23 July 2014.
https://whisperinggums.com/2014/07/23/eleanor-darks-juvenilia-review/
Russo, Stephanie. “Maria Edgeworth’s The Double Disguise”. Women’s Writing 22.4 (2015), 531–33.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09699082.2014.988422
Paroissien, David. “Charles Dickens’s The Bill of Fare, O’Thello & Other Early Works”. Dickens Quarterly 31.1 (March 2014), 73–76.
Stewart, David. “The Palace of Pleasure and Other Early Poems by Leigh Hunt”. The Year’s Work in English Studies (online March 4, 2013).
2013
“Recent Editions: Robert Louis Stevenson: First Writings”. RLS Site Newsletter Year 13 No. ii (September 2013), 8.
Cairney, Trevor. “The Childhood Writing of Dickens, Austen, Ruskin, Bruce & Others: What can we learn from it?”. Literacy, Families, and Learning Blog. Thursday, March 28, 2013.
“Charles Dickens’s The Bill of Fare, O’Thello & Other Early Works”. Brontë Studies Japan 5.5 (2013): 105–116.
2012
McMaster, Juliet. “Sarah Fyge Egerton’s The Female Advocate”. The Female Spectator 16.4 (Autumn 2012), 4.
2011
Baker, William. Review of Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits edited by Annette Upfal and Christine Alexander (Juvenilia Press 2010) in The Year’s Work in English Studies (2011), 55–6.
Duquette, Natasha. “The ‘New-Formed Leaves’ of Juvenilia Press”. English Studies in Canada 37.3 (Sept–Dec 2011), 201–18.
Harris, Jocelyn. “Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.2 (2010–11), 451–54.
Morrison, Fiona. “Right from the Beginning” Review of Dorothy Hewett, The Gipsy Dancer & Early Poems edited by Christine Alexander, with others (Juvenilia Press 2010) in Southerly 70.2 (2010), 205–8.
Tullock, Emily. Review of Mary Grant Bruce’s The Early Tales. “The write approach: HSC English students at PLC published a book of stories”. Sydney Morning Herald: Financial Review (Thursday, 28 July 2011), 13.
Van Der Meer, Carolyne. “Branwell Brontë’s The History of the Young Men”. Brontë Studies 36.4 (November 2011), 398.
2010
Kelly, Richard. “The Rectory Magazine”. Victorian Review 36.1 (Spring 2010), 239–40.
Sheridan, Susan. “Dorothy Hewett. The Gipsy Dancer and Early Poems”. Transitional Literature 3.1 (online November 2010).
Sabor, Peter. “Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits”. JASNA News. (Winter 2010).
2009
Blundell, Graeme. “Child’s play salvaged from Dorothy Hewett’s past”. The Australian. (14 May 2009).
“Jane’s juvenilia”. Jane Austen’s Regency World 39 (May/ June 2009), 22–27.
Reimer, Mavis. “The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf”. English Studies in Canada 33.1–2 (January 2009).
2008
Barker, Catherine. “Jane Austen’s Men”. JASA Chronicle (December 2008), 14.
Frank, Katherine. “Dick Doyle’s Journal”. Victorian Review 34.1 (Spring 2008), 180–82.
2007
Britton Wenner, Barbara. “Life in the 18th Century Fast Lane: Jack & Alice, Lady Susan and The Three Sisters”. JASNA News 23.1 (Spring 2007), 22.
2006
Birch, Dinah. “The Child Writer”. Times Literary Supplement. 8 February 2006.
Southam, Brian. “Jane Austen’s Lady Susan”. Jane Austen Society Newsletter No.27 (October 2006) 19–20.
Wiesenfarth, Joseph. “Life in the Raw” Reviews of Frederic & Elfridaby Jane Austen. Edited by Peter Sabor, Sylvia Hunt, and Victoria Kortes-Papp with illustrations by Juliet McMaster. Juvenilia Press, 2002. The History of England by Jane Austen. Edited by Jan Fergus and Others with illustrations by Cassandra Austen and Juliet McMaster. Juvenilia Press, 2003 (1st ed. 1995). Catharine or The Bower by Jane Austen. Edited by Juliet McMaster and Others with illustrations by Reka Serfozo. Juvenilia Press, 2005 (1st ed. 1996). JASNA News 22.2 (Summer 2006), 18.
2005
Beare, Sandra. “The Three Sisters by Jane Austen”. JASA Chronicle. June 2005.
Brannigan, John. “Philip Larkin’s Incidents from Phippy’s Schooldays”. The Year’s Work in English Studies 84 (2005) Chapter XIV Modern Literature, 847.
Kearney, Pauline. “Jane Austen’s Lady Susan”. JASA Chronicle (December 2005), 40.
Macleod, Jock. “The Diary of Iris Vaughan”. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 11 (2005), 158–161.
Ray, Greg “John Winton Heming” . Collecting Books and Magazines, 27 May 2005.
http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/heming.html
2004
Chen, Sze Kai. “Jane Addiction.” Blitz (University of New South Wales). September 2004 (mention of Juvenilia Press).
Duggan, Laurie “Still Life with dying poet” Jacket Magazine February 2004.
http://jacketmagazine.com/25/dugg-rothen.html
Morash, Gordon. “The Thoughts and Words of Rudy Wiebe.” Legacy (Spring 2004), 17–20.
Updike, John “What’s to love in Larkin” The New Yorker, 29 October 2004.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/07/26/twice-collected
Wilcocks, Richard. Review of Tales of the Islanders, Volumes 1–3. Charlotte Brontë. Eds. Christine Alexander et al. Brontë Studies 29.3 (November 2004), 271–72.
Williams, Deb. “Austen Illustrated.” Sensibilities (Jane Austen Society of Australia) 11 September 2004 (mentions Juvenilia Press volumes).
2003
Booth, James. Review of Incidents From Phippy’s Schooldays. Philip Larkin.
Eds. Brenda Allen and James Acheson. About Larkin 15 (April 2003), 34.
McMaster, Juliet. “Punctilio and Propriety: Illustrating Frederic & Elfrida.” Sensibilities (Jane Austen Society of Australia) (June 2003), 18–29.
Osadetz, Stephen. “Juvenilia Press leaves the nest.” Express News University of Alberta, 8 August 2003.
Pettigrew, Ellyn. Review of Frederic & Elfrida. Jane Austen. Ed. Peter Sabor. Newsletter (Jane Austen Society of Australia) No. 24 (June 2003), 38.
Spreng, Angela. “Evolutionary Visions.” Review of Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Margaret Laurence. Ed. Nora Foster Stovel. Canadian Literature No.178 (Autumn 2003), 170–71.
2002
Frank, Tema. “Juvenilia Press.” University Affairs (Canada). February 2002, 21–4.
Peterson, Leslie. “Significant Beginnings: Recovering Childhood Writing with the Juvenilia Press.” The Female Spectator (Chawton House Library Newsletter). Autumn 2002, 5–7.
Pryor, Lisa. “Drunks, bastards and murderers: ah, a ripping yarn from Jane Austen.” Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, 16–17 November 2002, 5.
2001
Cairney, Richard. “Juvenilia Press launches new collection.” Express News University of Alberta, 30 November 2001 (article also appeared in the University of Alberta Folio, 30 November 2001).
Hall, Vicki. “Leaving the nest.” The Edmonton Journal, 8 August 1999: B1-B2.
Kearney, Christine. “Out of the mouths of babes.” Uniken 2001
Somacarrera, Pilar. “Canadian Childhoods.” Review of A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001), 120–21.
Wiesenfarth, Joseph. Review of Jane Austen’s A Collection of Letters. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Lesley Castle. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Evelyn. Ed. Peter Sabor et al. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 13.4 (2001), 611–15.
1999
McMaster, Juliet. “Hands-On Editing Experience with the Juvenilia Press.” Teaching and Learning 6.3 (April 1999), 3.
Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline. “Austen for All Ages.” Review of Jane Austen’s Catharine, or The Bower. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., A Collection of Letters. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Henry and Eliza. Ed. Karen L. Hartnick and Rachel M. Brownstein et al., Lesley Castle. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Love and Freindship. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. Jane Austen Society of North America News 15.2 (Summer 1999), 16.
Ostry, Elaine. “In the Flush of Youth: offerings from the Juvenilia Press.” Rev. of Norna, or The Witch’s Curse. Louisa May Alcott. Eds. Nicole Lafrenire, Michael Londry, Catriona Martyn, and Erika Rothwell. A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. My Angria and the Angrians. Charlotte Brontë. Eds. Juliet McMaster and Leslie Robertson. Edward Neville. Marianne Evans (George Eliot). Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Margaret Laurence. Ed. Nora Foster Stovel. Indamora to Lindamira. Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Lady Mary Wortley Montagu). Ed. Isobel Grundy. Pockets Full of Stars. Alison White. Ed. Arlette Zinck. Canadian Children’s Literature 24.3/4 (Fall/Winter 1998), 158–60.
1998
Pykett, Lyn. Rev. of The Young Visiters, or Mr Salteena’s Plan. Daisy Ashford. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Catharine, or The Bower. Jane Austen. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Henry and Eliza. Jane Austen. Eds. Karen L. Hartnick and Rachel M. Brownstein et al. The History of England. Jane Austen. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Love and Freindship. Jane Austen. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Branwell’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Branwell Brontë. Eds. Christine Alexander and Vanessa Benson. My Angria and the Angrians. Charlotte Brontë. Eds. Juliet McMaster and Leslie Robertson. Edward Neville. Marianne Evans (George Eliot). Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. Nineteenth-Century Literature 53.3 (December 1998), 405–409.
Rieman, Janice. Rev. of A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. Margaret Atwood Society Newsletter, No.21 (Fall/Winter 1998), 16.
Ross, Catherine. “They Wove a Web in Childhood.” Rev. of A Romance, or The Twelve Adventurers. Charlotte Brontë. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Branwell’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Branwell Brontë. Eds. Christine Alexander and Vanessa Benson. Canadian Children’s Literature 24.3/4 (Fall/Winter 1998), 155–58.
Sabor, Peter. Rev. of Jane Austen’s Catharine, or The Bower. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Henry and Eliza. Ed. Karen L. Hartnick and Rachel M. Brownstein et al., The History of England. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Love and Freindship. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10.2 (January 1998), 244–46.
Stow, Glenys. “From the Young Writer to the Young Reader: Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Rev. of Jane Austen’s Jack and Alice. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Amelia Webster and The Three Sisters. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Love and Freindship. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., The History of England. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Henry and Eliza. Eds. Karen L. Hartnick and Rachel M. Brownstein et al., Catharine, or The Bower. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. Canadian Children’s Literature 24.3/4 (Fall/Winter 1998), 160–64.
1997
Hintz, Carrie. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Romance Writings.” Rev. of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Romance Writings. Ed. Isobel Grundy. Univeristy of Toronto Quarterly 68.1 (Winter 1998/99), 681 (mention of Juvenilia Press Indamora to Lindamira).
Lemay, Shawna. “Young writing expresses resistance: Juvenilia Press releases early Margaret Atwood work.” Rev. of A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. University of Alberta Folio 16 May 1997.
Rev. of A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. Love and Freindship. Jane Austen. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. University of Toronto Bookstore Review 11.1 (Autumn 1997), 44.
Schroeder, Janice. Rev. of A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Margaret Atwood. Eds. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. See Magazine 8 May 1997.
1996
“Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Jane Austen Society of Australia Newsletter 11 (December 1996), 10–11.
Letzring, Monica. Rev. of Indamora to Lindamira. Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Lady Mary Wortley Montagu). Ed. Isobel Grundy. The Scriblerian 28 (Autumn 1995–Spring 1996), 89–90.
McMaster, Juliet. “Editing Jane’s Juvenilia.” Jane Austen Society of North America Newsletter (issue no?) 1996: 9–11.
Schroeder, Janice. “Effusions of Fancy, Bits of Irony: Editing.” Rev. of Catharine, or The Bower. Jane Austen. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al. Jane Austen Society of North America – Southwest Newsletter 31 (Fall 1996), 3–5.
Tarr, Anita C. Rev. of Norna, or The Witch’s Curse. Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., The History of England. Jane Austen. Ed. Jan Fergus et al., Love and Freindship. Jane Austen. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., Branwell’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Branwell Brontë. Eds. Christine Alexander and Vanessa Benson. Edward Neville. Marianne Evans (George Eliot). Ed. Juliet McMaster et al., George Eliot / George Henry Lewes Studies 30.31 (September 1996), 110–13.
1995
Chaber, Lois A. “Transgressive Youth: Lady Mary, Jane Austen, and the Juvenilia Press.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8.1 (October 1995), 81–88.
Cleary, Thomas R. Rev. of Indamora to Lindamira. Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Lady Mary Wortley Montagu). Ed. Isobel Grundy. English Studies in Canada 21.4 (December 1995), 477–79.
Tennyson, G.B. “Recent Books.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 48.2 (September 1993), 268–73.
The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 1995), 34. Brief mention of Norna, or The Witch’s Curse. Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Juliet McMaster et al.
Thomas, Ron. “Juvenilia Press fertile training ground for apprentice scholars.” University of Alberta Folio 27 (October 1995), 4.