Ewing, Juliana Horatia - Jackapanese (1884)

Ewing, Juliana Horatia - Jackapanese

With Illustrations by Randolph Caldecott

London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884

Binding: half-cloth, Pictorial boards
8vo. (6.2 " x 8.5")
47 pages

GOOD
Boards bumped with light age tone and marks

Title page illustrated and 15 illustrations within text by Caldecott

The story of a bright-haired, high-spirited small boy, who rode the horse Lollo across the green, and who, as a young man, gave his life to save his best friend According to The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, the death of the young French Prince Imperial during the Zulu wars of 1879 inspired Julia Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) to write the wistful tale of heroic sacrifice in which the orphaned son of a Waterloo cavalry officer is brought up by his spinster aunt and eventually dies saving the life of his childhood friend on the field of battle. The principal scene of the action is the little village of Goose Green in one of England's northern counties, the scenes of battle merely being located on a plain in a hot climate.

Although originally without illustrations when she published it in the 1879 Aunt Judy's Magazine, the children's journal she edited, four years later it appeared as a slender, one-shilling volume with line illustrations by the noted artist Randolph Caldecott (1846 - '86).

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