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.
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
Furniss quoted with relish her allegedly low opinion of Ellen Wood , as simply a brute, she throws in bits of religion to slip her fodder down the public throat.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
287
In fact CR had...
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
The book was illustrated by Clara S. Lane .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Its authorship was often wrongly attributed to Juliana Ewing .
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
19
It is now a Project Gutenberg e-book.
Gatty, Margaret. “Aunt Judy’s Tales, 1859”. Project Gutenberg.
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
xvi
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1677 (1859): 812
To most readers today the...
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
While still at school, ES began writing diaries. When she was forbidden to keep them, she buried them. She also wrote poems (some of which she printed in 1919 in Impressions that Remained). Soon...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
Her full title was British Sea-Weeds, Drawn from Professor Harvey 's Phycologia Britannica. With descriptions, an amateur's synopsis, rules for laying out sea-weeds, an Order for Arranging them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of...
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 et al. Victorian Tales for Girls. Editor Laski, Marghanita, Pilot Press.
prelims
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
ML dedicated to Mary Lascelles (who had taught her at Somerville College ) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing , Mrs. Molesworth , and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
Laski, Marghanita. Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A. Barker.
prelims
Maxwell, Mrs. “Ladies of Quality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2528, p. 438.
438
Textual Production Mary Louisa Molesworth
MLM wrote relatively little about her metier. She published a handful of articles about her own work, and one about Juliana Horatia Ewing , in magazines, and she contributed to The Art of Authorship: Literary...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
As well as two other titles for children, MG published this year her very popular Aunt Judy's Tales, titled from her daughter Juliana 's nickname and from the familiar idea of one of a...
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...
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
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.
185
Betty Gilderdale endorses this, calling it the first book to be published in England for teenage girls...
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...

Timeline

May 1866: Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded...

Writing climate item

May 1866

Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded by Margaret (Mrs Alfred) Gatty .

October 1885: Aunt Judy's Magazine ceased publication;...

Writing climate item

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.

Texts

Ewing, Juliana Horatia. A Flat Iron for a Farthing. Bell and Daldy, 1873.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. A Great Emergency, and Other Tales. Bell and Sons, 1877.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Canada Home: Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Fredricton Letters, 1867-1869. Editors Blom, Margaret Howard and Thomas E. Blom, University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Randolph Caldecott. Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.
McDonald, Donna, and Juliana Horatia Ewing. Illustrated News: Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Canadian Pictures, 1867-1869. Dundurn Press, 1985.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. “Introduction”. Victorian Tales for Girls, edited by Marghanita Laski, Pilot Press, 1947, pp. 7-12.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Randolph Caldecott. Jackanapes. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young, 1883.
Tucker, Elizabeth S., and Juliana Horatia Ewing. Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing’s "Canada Home". Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and George Cruikshank. Lob Lie-by-the-Fire. Bell and Sons, 1874.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Margaret Gatty. “Margaret Gatty”. Parables from Nature, Bell and Sons, 1880.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Melchior’s Dream, and Other Tales. Bell and Daldy, 1862.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances. Bell and Daldy, 1869.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Old Fashioned Fairy Tales. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Helen Allingham. Six to Sixteen. Bell and Sons, 1876.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Brownies, and Other Tales. Bell and Daldy, 1870.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Gordon Browne. The Story of a Short Life. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. Victorian Tales for Girls. Editor Laski, Marghanita, Pilot Press, 1947.