Background
Juliana Horatia Ewing was born on the 3rd of August, 1841 in Ecclesfield, United Kingdom.
Juliana Horatia Ewing was born on the 3rd of August, 1841 in Ecclesfield, United Kingdom.
Early stories appeared in Charlotte Yonge's magazine Monthly Packet. They remained there for two years, before returning to England in 1869 and spending eight years in the army town of Aldershot. Rudyard Kipling claimed to know her novel January of the Windmill (1872-1873, 1876) almost by heart.
Her story The Brownies (1865) gave the Baden-Powells the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides.
Another admirer of her work was East. Nesbit. They moved to Trull, Somerset, on his return in 1883, and in 1885, to Bath, in the hopes that the change of air would do her good.
However, her health continued to deteriorate, and after two operations, she died there on 13 May 1885. She was given a military funeral at Trull three days later.
Her sister Horatia Katharine Frances Gatty (1846-1945) published a memorial of Julie"s life and works, Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
lieutenant contains a useful publication history of her stories. Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing"s "Canada Home.", edited by Elizabeth South. Tucker (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896) includes some of Julie"s letters and drawings about Canada. A biography of her by Gillian Avery appeared in 1961 (London: Bodley Head).
They include Mistress
Overtheway"s Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1872), Six to Sixteen (1875), Jackanapes (1884), Daddy Darwin"s Dovecot (1884), and The Story of a Short Life (1885). She was also the editor of a number of magazines which published short stories for children, such as the Nursery Magazines from 1856 onwards, the Monthly Packet and the monthly Aunt Judy"s Magazine from 1866.
Juliana Horatia Ewing was married to Juliana Horatia Ewing.