Jackanapes

Jackanapes

Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [188-]

Published: 1884

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Jackanapes lives in a small English village and joins the British army where he becomes a hero.


Lob Lie-by-the-Fire; Or, the Luck of Lingborough

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire; Or, the Luck of Lingborough

Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

Publisher:

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781409951551

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Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing, nee Gatty, (1841-1885) 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 childlife, and still enjoy undiminished popularity, are Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1873), Jan of the Windmill (1873), Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories (1879), We and the World (1881), Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales (1882) and The Story of a Short Life (1885).


Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels

Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels

Author: Dr Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1409489825

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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.