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
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
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...
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...
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.
305
but hated Eliza Lynn Linton 's contribution on George Eliot , and feared that her own, on Juliana Horatia Ewing , was being...
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...
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...
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
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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