Margaret Gatty

03 June 1809 - 04 October 1879

Standard Name: Gatty, Margaret

Birth Name: Margaret Scott

Nickname: Meta

Married Name: Margaret Gatty

Indexed Name: Mrs. Alfred Gatty

MG was a popular and influential children's writer (of fiction and a famous periodical) and scientific writer in the mid-nineteenth century. She began by publishing a biography of her father. Apart from her writings she was also a serious scientist.

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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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Her mother was the much-loved children's writer Margaret Gatty .
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Smith	Among the Victorians, Harriet Martineau concluded Female Education in The Monthly Repository of December 1822 (second part of her first published work) with a word of praise for Smith, and Margaret Gatty as a young...
Intertextuality and Influence	Agnes Giberne	A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty ). Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Seeley. prelims The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
Literary responses	Frances Power Cobbe	Margaret Gatty in The Old Folks from Home expressed disapproval of women reading at the meetings. She said it gave her a creepy-crawly sensation, to imagine it, and after hearing FPC complained that it was...
Publishing	Sarah Grand	The first short story by Frances Elizabeth McCall (later SG ) to make it to print was Mamma's Music Lessons, which appeared in Margaret Gatty 's evangelical Aunt Judy's Magazine for Young People. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 340n1
Textual Production	Mary Shelley	MS contributed to every number of the newly-founded annual The Keepsake during these years; she needed the money. During the first two of these years, verse translations from French and German appeared in The Bijou...
Textual Production	Enid Blyton	This was illustrated by Eileen A. Soper . Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. EB produced a new Five book almost every year for nearly twenty years, only missing once until the series wound up with the rather feebly-titled Five are...
Textual Production	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Juliana Horatia Gatty (later JHE ) published her first book, Melchior's Dream, and Other Tales. It did not bear her name (only initials), but had the advantage of bearing that of her mother as...
Textual Production	Juliana Horatia Ewing	Margaret Gatty's just-posthumous collected edition of Parables from Nature, November 1873, included JHE 's tribute to her mother: In Memoriam—Margaret Gatty. Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. 85

Timeline

May 1866

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

November 1881

Aunt Judy's Magazine, the leading fictionperiodicalfor children founded by Margaret Gatty , changed publishers, and adopted a new format with a cover designed by Randolph Caldecott .

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

Gatty, Margaret. A Book of Emblems. Bell and Daldy, 1872.

Gatty, Margaret, and Clara S. Lane. Aunt Judy’s Letters. Bell and Daldy, 1862.

Gatty, Margaret, editor. Aunt Judy’s Magazine. Bell and Daldy.

Gatty, Margaret, and Clara S. Lane. Aunt Judy’s Tales. Bell and Daldy, 1859.

Gatty, Margaret. “Aunt Judy’s Tales, 1859”. Project Gutenberg.

Gatty, Margaret. British Sea-Weeds. Bell and Sons, 1863.

Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Margaret Gatty. “Margaret Gatty”. Parables from Nature, Bell and Sons, 1880.

Gatty, Margaret. Parables from Nature. Bell and Sons, 1855.

Gatty, Margaret, and Alfred Gatty. Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A.J. Scott. Saunders and Otley, 1842.

Gatty, Margaret. The Book of Sun-Dials. Bell and Sons, 1872.

Gatty, Margaret. The Book of Sun-Dials. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.

Gatty, Margaret. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales. George Bell, 1851.

Gatty, Margaret, and Clara S. Lane. The Human Face Divine and Other Tales. Bell and Daldy, 1860.