MRS. JULIANA HORATIA EWING BIOGRAPHY

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 .