Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gatty) (1842 - 1885) was a writer of children's stories, daughter of 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 .