Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885) was an English children’s author admired for her sympathetic understanding of childhood. Born in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of the Reverend Alfred Gatty and Margaret Gatty, herself a children’s writer. Known to her family as Julie, she grew up in a lively household where storytelling, amateur theatricals, and an interest in nature encouraged her imagination.

In 1867, she married Alexander Ewing, an army officer, musician, and composer. They spent two years in New Brunswick, Canada, before returning to England and settling in Aldershot. Her experiences of military life and her Anglican faith helped shape her fiction. Among her best-known works are Jackanapes, Six to Sixteen, Jan of the Windmill, and The Story of a Short Life. Her stories explored courage, kindness, duty, and sacrifice through characters whose feelings and experiences connected with young readers.

Despite persistent ill health, Ewing produced a substantial body of work before her death in Bath on May 13, 1885, aged forty-three. Her admirers included Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, while her story The Brownies inspired the name of the younger branch of the Girl Guides.