Six to Sixteen. A Story for Girls / Mary's Meadow and Letters from a Little Garden. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. / Jan of the Windmill. A Story of the Plains.

Six to Sixteen. A Story for Girls with Ten Illustrations by Mrs. W. Allingham. New Edition -- AND -- Mary's Meadow and Letters from a Little Garden. Illustrated by Gordon Browne, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans -- AND -- Jan of the Windmill. A Story of the Plains.

Author: Ewing, Juliana Horatio

8vo.(5.75" x 7.875") 3 volumes in 1. 1886. Ewing, Juliana Horatio. London: George Bell & Sons and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Half black polished leather with blindstamp rule to leather edges, over purple cloth boards. Gilt "Shotton Hall" to foot of front cover. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt titles on brown leather to second and third compartments, fancy gilt rule to head and foot. All edges marbled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, with small loss. Purple cloth with sun fade to both covers, more pronounced to front cover. Leather rubbed and scraped in spots (see pic). Illustrated.

From Wiki: Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty, 3 August 1841 – 13 May 1885) was an English writer of children's stories. Her writings display a sympathetic insight into children's lives, an admiration for things military, and a strong religious faith. Roger Lancelyn Green calls Ewing's works the "first outstanding child-novels" in English literature. They show notably sympathetic insight into child life, admiration for things military, and a reflection of Ewing's strong Anglican faith. They include Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1873), Six to Sixteen (1875), Jackanapes (1884), Daddy Darwin's Dovecot (1884), and The Story of a Short Life (1885). Rudyard Kipling declared he knew Ewing's novel Jan of the Windmill (1872–1873, 1876) almost by heart. He wrote in his autobiography, Something of Myself: "One [book] I have still, a bound copy of Aunt Judy's Magazine of the early 'seventies, in which appeared Mrs. Ewing's "Six to Sixteen". I owe more in circuitous ways to that tale than I can tell. I knew it, as I know it still, almost by heart. Here was a history of real people and real things." Her story The Brownies (1865) gave the Baden-Powells the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides. Another admirer of her work was E. Nesbit, herself a prominent children's author.

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