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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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.
135: 231
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
Despite insisting that the novel's plot was naught, the...
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.
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.
1
The pair had waited patiently for several years before Margaret's father would...
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...

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