3-053-462 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Co. 'This estimable and accomplished lady [Margaret Scott] has long been known as one of the best authors of wholesome and pleasant reading for young people...Mrs. Gatty's first independent work appeared from the press in 1851, being a graceful melange of fanciful stories, entitled "The Fairy Godmothers, and other Tales." In 1855 she followed up this first success with the earliest of the five volumes of her "Parables from Nature"...Mrs. Gatty, in 1856, published her "Worlds not Realised," and a year afterwards her "Proverbs Illustrated"...Mrs. Gatty brought out, in 1862, the good-humoured record of a holiday excursion in Ireland during the previous autumn, under the whimsical title of "The Old Folks From Home"...in 1863, Mrs. Gatty first brought out her work on "British Seaweeds"...In the May of 1866 she began her well-known monthly organ for children, entitled Aunt Judy's Magazine. Selected and reprinted from "Mission Life," she passed through the press in 1869, first "The Children's Mission Army," and afterwards "Mission Shillings." During the year 1870 she penned "Waifs and Strays in Natural History," and in 1871 put together "Aunt Judy's Song-Book for Children".' From "Illustrated London News", 1873.