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Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885We have 17 books for this author.
 Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty) (1841–1885) was a writer of children's stories, daughter of The Rev. Alfred Gatty and Margaret Gatty, also a writer for children. Among her tales, which have hardly been excelled in sympathetic insight into child-life, and still enjoy undiminished popularity, are: Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1872), Six to Sixteen (1875), Jan of the Windmill (1876), Jackanapes (1884), and The Story of a Short Life (1885). Her works have been called the "first outstanding child-novels" in English literature.[1] She was born at Ecclesfield, Yorkshire on August 3, 1841; married June 1, 1867, to Alexander Ewing and died at Bath, May 13, 1885. She was buried at Trull, Somerset, on May 16, 1885. References
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This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. This biographical information was gathered from the Juliana_Horatia_Ewing page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksBrothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and MenThe Brownies and Other Tales A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son A Great Emergency and Other Tales Jackanapes Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Jan of the Windmill Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Miscellanea Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales The Peace Egg and Other tales Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Verses for Children and Songs for Music We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys |
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