Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia (Gatty)

Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia (Gatty)
(1842-1885)
   Writer of children's stories, dau. of Mrs. Alfred Gatty (q.v.), 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: A Flat Iron for a Farthing, Jackanapes, Jan of the Windmill, Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, and The Story of a Short Life.

Short biographical dictionary of English literature . . 2011.

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