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À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love Victorian children's writing, gentle moral tales and country settings, and parents who enjoy reading aloud. These stories offer courage, kindness and care for the natural world.
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Last Words is a late collection of stories by Juliana Horatia Ewing, a Victorian English writer who wrote for children and for families. She died in 1885, and her work was gathered and reissued in the years that followed. Readers who know her other books will find the same warm, practical voice here.
The stories in a collection like this speak to young readers about courage, kindness and care for animals, plants and the countryside. Ewing wrote with a gentle sense of humour and a firm belief in duty, honesty and good sense. In the first key point, we look at the kind of writer she was and the world her tales came from.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A Victorian storyteller with a clear voiceFree
- 2Courage shown in small, daily acts
- 3Kindness changes the people around it
- 4The natural world as a place of wonder
Point clé 1 sur 4
A Victorian storyteller with a clear voice
Juliana Horatia Ewing wrote in the second half of the nineteenth century, when children's literature in Britain was growing quickly. She was the daughter of a clergyman, and her mother, Margaret Gatty, was also a writer for the young. Home life, church and nature shaped her imagination from early on.
Her stories are known for plain, lively language and for characters who feel like real children. She did not talk down to her readers. She trusted them to understand honour, loyalty and simple fairness.
When you read her, expect a narrator who sounds close and friendly. The tone is often playful, yet it carries a serious point about how to live well.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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