Juliana Horatia Ewing
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Standard Name: Ewing, Juliana Horatia
Birth Name: Juliana Horatia Gatty
Nickname: Julie
Pseudonym: J. H. G.
Nickname: Aunt Judy
Married Name: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Indexed Name: Mrs Ewing
Pseudonym: J. H. E.
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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Rudyard Kipling | Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned... |
Education | Anne Ridler | Her education began with her mother and a governess. At six she began attending a class run by the sister of another Rugby master. Later came visits to a piano teacher, and at home a... |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Bawden | NB
liked her grandmother's children's books (including Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
) better than the ones she found in the public library—these she found flimsy. Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago, 1995. 21 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Gatty | Scholar Mary Lascelles
calls Alfred Gatty a man by no means negligible, but overshadowed by his wife, whom she thinks redoubtable. Lascelles, Mary Madge. Juliana Horatia Ewing, 1841-1885: An Appreciation. Privately printed, 1985. 1 |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but... |
Literary responses | Margaret Gatty | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed this book for the Athenæum on 11 October 1862. Juliana Ewing
wrote that like many sequels it was not equal to the first work, and bears traces of the fact that Mrs... |
Literary responses | Jean Ingelow | The Athenæum declared in its review of Don John that JI
was a capital story-teller, but she will never make a novelist. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2818 (1881): 559 |
Publishing | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Contemporary Review carried an essay by MLM
entitled Juliana Horatia Ewing: one leading writer for children giving her opinion on another. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research, 1994. 135: 231 |
Reception | Mary Anne Barker | The Times, reviewing Sybil's Book in late 1873, found it both delightful and thoroughly original. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 185 |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Reception | Margaret Oliphant | Emma Marshall
, another contributor, thought MO
's piece admirable, Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 305 |
Reception | Margaret Gatty | Juliana Ewing
singled out for particular praise the introduction and the Rules for Preserving and Laying out Sea-weeds, in which the work aligns itself with a tradition of women writing about female handicrafts. Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. xvii |
Textual Features | Margaret Gatty | Juliana Ewing
pointed out that some of the stories (The Smut, The Crick, and The Brothers, all in a section called The Black Bag) were not her mother's contributions. They... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | ML
edited and introduced Victorian Tales for Girls, which includes tales by Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Charlotte Yonge
, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Juliana Ewing
, Annie Fellows-Johnston
, and one anonymous author. Ewing, Juliana Horatia, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Charlotte Yonge, Annie Fellows-Johnston, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Victorian Tales for Girls. Laski, MarghanitaEditor , Pilot Press, 1947. prelims |
Timeline
May 1866
Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded by Margaret (Mrs Alfred) Gatty
.
October 1885
Aunt Judy's Magazine ceased publication; it had been edited first by Margaret Gatty
, then by two of her daughters, Juliana Horatia
and Horatia Katherine Frances
, then by H. K. F. on her own.