Juliana Horatia Ewing Juliana Horatia Ewing Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing ( Gatty ) ( 1842 - 1885 ) was a writer of children 's stories , daughter of The Rev. Alfred Gatty and Margaret Gatty , 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 . She was born at Ecclesfield , Yorkshire on August 3 , 1841 ; married June 1 , 1867 , to Alexander Ewing and died at Bath , May 13 , 1885 . She was buried at Trull , Somerset , on May 16 , 1885 . External links Works by Juliana Horatia Ewing at Project Gutenberg Juliana Horatia Ewing and her books by Horatia K. F. Eden , 1896 , from Project Gutenberg edit 19th-Century British Children 's and Young Adults ' Literature —————————— Authors Representative Titles Illustrators . ——————————— This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin , John William ( 1910 ) . A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature . London , J.M. Dent & sons ; New York , E.P. Dutton . This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature | United Kingdom writer stubs | 1842 births | 1885 deaths | Natives of Yorkshire | English children 's writers Ewing+Juliana+Horatia+Gatty Juliana Horatia Ewing 