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EWING . JULIANA HORATIA ORR (1841-1885), See also:

English writer of books for See also:children, daughter of the Rev. See also:Alfred See also:Gatty and of See also:Margaret Gatty (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Ecclesfield, See also:Yorkshire, in 1841. One of a large See also:family, she was accustomed to. See also:act as nursery See also:story-See also:teller to her See also:brothers and sisters, and her See also:brother Alfred See also:Scott Gatty provided See also:music to accompany her plays. She was well educated in See also:classics and See also:modern See also:languages, and at an See also:early See also:age began to publish verses, being a contributor to Aunt Judy's See also:Magazine, which her See also:mother started in 1866. The See also:Land of Lost Toys and many other of Juliana's stories appeared in this magazine.. In 1867 she married See also:Major See also:Alexander Ewing, himself an author, and the composer of the well-known hymn " See also:Jerusalem the See also:Golden." From this See also:time until her See also:death (x3th may 1885), previously to which she had been a See also:constant invalid, Mrs Ewing produced a number of charming children's stories. The best of these are: The Brownies (1870), A See also:Flat-See also:Iron for a See also:Farthing (1873), Lob-See also:lie-by the See also:Fire (1874), The Story of a See also:Short See also:Life (1885) and Jackanapes (1884), the two last-named, in particular, obtaining See also:great success; among others may be mentioned Mrs Over-the-Way's Remembrances (1869), Six to Sixteen, See also:Jan of the See also:Windmill (1876), A Great Emergency (1877), We and the See also:World (1881), Old-Fashioned See also:Fairy Tales, Brothers of Pity (1882), The See also:Doll's See also:Wash, See also:Master Fritz, Our See also:Garden, A Soldier's Children, Three Little See also:Nest-Birds, A See also:Week Spent in a See also:Glass-See also:House, A Sweet Little Dear, and See also:Blue-Red (1883). Many of these were published by the S.P.C.K. See also:Simple and unaffected in See also:style, and See also:sound and wholesome in See also:matter, with quiet touches of See also:humour and See also:bright sketches of scenery and See also:character, Mrs Ewing's best stories have never been surpassed in the style of literature to which. they belong.

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