Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden
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appeared previously in Magazines.
In Volume XII., "Brothers of Pity and other tales of men and beasts," will be found _Among the Merrows_; _A Week spent in a Glass Pond_; _Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks_; _The Owl in the Ivy Bush, and Owlhoots I. II._, whilst _Sunflowers and a Rushlight_ has been put amongst the Flower Stories in Vol. XVI., _Mary's Meadow_, etc. The Letter with which this volume concludes was one of the last that Julie wrote, and its allusion to Gordon's translation seemed to make it suitable for the End. After her death the readers of _Aunt Judy's Magazine_ subscribed enough to complete the endowment (£1000) of a Cot at the Convalescent Home of the Hospital for Sick Children, _Cromwell House, Highgate_. This had been begun to our Mother's memory, and was completed in the joint names of _Margaret Gatty_ and _Juliana Horatia Ewing_. So liberal were the subscriptions that there was a surplus of more than £200, and with this we endowed two £5 annuities in the _Cambridge Fund for Old Soldiers_--as the "Jackanapes," and "Leonard" annuities. Of other memorials there are the marble gravestone in Trull Churchyard, and Tablet in Ecclesfield Church, both carved by Harry Hems, of Exeter, and similarly decorated with the double lilac primrose,--St. Juliana's flower. In Ecclesfield Church there is also a beautiful stained window, given by her friend, Bernard Wake. The glass was executed by W.F. Dixon, and the subject is Christ's Ascension. Julie died on the Eve of Ascension Day. |
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