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Scholarly interest in literary juvenilia—writings by children and teenagers—tends to focus on unpublished works by authors who became famous as adults, such as Charles Dickens's poem "The Bill of Fare," which he wrote around the ages of 18-20, because they offer insights into their authors' artistic development. But some scholars also argue that recovering juveniia by lesser-known writers is essential to understanding literary history: Daisy Ashford's novels, which she published as a child, were widely read by contemporaries and are therefore deserving of closer attention.

To describe the challenges famous writers encountered when seeking to publish works written in their childhood

To present reasons why literary scholars consider juvenilia to be valuable resources

To compare the accomplishments of young writers with those of their adult contemporaries

To argue that Ashford's novels have more literary merit than Dickens's juvenilia do