Juliana Horatia Ewing

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JHE , like her mother before her, was one of the best-loved children's writers of the nineteenth century. She published stories and novels for young people, ran (jointly with her sister Horatia Katherine Frances, later Eden ) Aunt Judy's Magazine (which her mother had founded) and wrote delightful letters, some of them describing her time in Canada.
  • BirthName: Juliana Horatia Gatty
    Her second Christian name (which was also the first name of her next sister, who was five years younger) did not derive directly from family patron Horatio Nelson , but from her mother's elder sister, who was no doubt named after him.

  • Nicknames: Julie; Aunt Judy
    This nickname, JHE later wrote, was given by her brothers.

  • Married: Ewing
  • Pseudonyms: J. H. G.; J. H. E.
  • Indexed: Mrs Ewing

Milestones

3 August 1841

Juliana Horatia Gatty (later JHE ) was born at Ecclesfield near Sheffield, the second daughter in a family of ten children.
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By November 1883

JHE published through the SPCK her children's story Jackanapes, with seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott .
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
21: 171
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries, 2006.
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November 1884-February 1885

Aunt Judy's Magazine carried JHE 's last literary work, Letters from a Little Garden, a celebration of flowers. She did not finish the letter for March.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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13 May 1885

JHE died in her mid-forties, at Bath, after an operation. She had been bedridden for three painful months after a species of blood-poisoning was diagnosed.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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Biography

Birth and Family

3 August 1841

Juliana Horatia Gatty (later JHE ) was born at Ecclesfield near Sheffield, the second daughter in a family of ten children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.