EWING

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EWING . JULIANA HORATIA ORR (1841-1885), English writer of books for children, daughter of the Rev. Alfred Gatty and of Margaret Gatty (q.v.), was born at Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, in 1841. One of a large family, she was accustomed to. act as nursery story-teller to her

brothers

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

and sisters, and her brother Alfred Scott Gatty provided music to accompany her plays. She was well educated in classics and modern languages, and at an early age began to publish verses, being a contributor to Aunt Judy's Magazine, which her mother started in 1866. The Land of Lost Toys and many other of Juliana's stories appeared in this magazine.. In 1867 she married Major Alexander Ewing, himself an author, and the composer of the well-known hymn " Jerusalem the Golden." From this time until her death (x3th may 1885), previously to which she had been a constant invalid, Mrs Ewing produced a number of charming children's stories. The best of these are: The Brownies (1870), A Flat-Iron for a Farthing (1873), Lob-lie-by the Fire (1874), The Story of a Short Life (1885) and Jackanapes (1884), the two last-named, in particular, obtaining

great

GREAT

success; among others may be mentioned Mrs Over-the-Way's Remembrances (1869), Six to Sixteen, Jan of the

Windmill

WINDMILL

(1876), A

Great

GREAT

Emergency (1877), We and the World (1881), Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales,

Brothers

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

of Pity (1882), The Doll's

Wash

WASH, THE

, Master Fritz, Our

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

, A Soldier's Children, Three Little Nest-Birds, A

Week

WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=
change
- CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. 冠 urmu', to bend)
, turn)

Spent in a Glass-

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, A Sweet Little Dear, and Blue-Red (1883). Many of these were published by the S.P.C.K. Simple and unaffected in style, and sound and wholesome in matter, with quiet touches of humour and

bright

BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

sketches of scenery and character, Mrs Ewing's best stories have never been surpassed in the style of literature to which. they belong.

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