Ewing, Juliana Horatia
Ewing, Juliana Horatia (1841–85),English writer for children. The daughter of Margaret Gatty, in whose Aunt Judy's Magazine most of her work was first published, she wrote several stories about magic in everyday life, and a collection of shorter tales, Old‐Fashioned Fairy Tales (1882), all of which had first appeared in Aunt Judy. Though from 1867 she was an army wife and obliged to lead a nomadic existence, she came from a large, closely knit vicarage family, and stories about family and country life, which she recalled with great nostalgia, form the greatest part of her œuvre. Her fantasy stresses family values. Thus in an early story, ‘Melchior's Dream’ (first published in the Monthly Packet in 1861, and one of the most powerful she ever wrote), the boy who wishes he were an only child finds in a terrible dream that he has become one. He fancies he is driving in a coach with Time, who puts down...
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