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.
Photo of Julia Horatia Ewing in profile, sitting in a chair writing in a small book. Her hair is pulled tightly back and plaited in an ornate bun. Her dress is dark, with a glimpse of white at throat and wrists.

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.
21: 171
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries.
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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.

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