“What one sees another sees"

Synchronicity in the Juvenilia of Anna Kingsford and Richard Jefferies

Authors

  • Peter Merchant

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/jjs38

Keywords:

juvenilia, Victorian poetry, sensation fiction, mysticism, nineteenth-century literary reviewing

Abstract

This essay considers some of the work published by Anna Kingsford (1846-88) before she reached the age of twenty and by Richard Jefferies (1848-87) before he turned eighteen. It focuses on the year 1866, and explores some unexpected parallels between his writing and hers. What stand revealed are two oddly overlapping careers that were shaped by, but also both rose above, the not always favourable conditions under which in the later nineteenth century the young writer had to operate.

Vol. 2, no. 2, of JJS.

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Published

2019-12-27

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2019): Journal of Juvenilia Studies

Section

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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Copyright (c) 2019 Peter Merchant

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