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 Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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...
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
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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

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.