Artistic Duplicity: The Fiction and Poetry of Juliana Horatia Ewing : Sacristy Press : 9781789590630 : 1789590639 : 15 Jan 2020 : Artistic Duplicity: The Fction and Poetry of Juliana Ewing challenges the traditional status of Ewing in literary history as an author solely of children's writings. This book presents Ewing as a sophisticated conscious artist whose work deserves to be considered seriously by adult readers who value skill and profundity. Although she writes in a style often accessible to children of somewhat advanced reading ability, she possessed the extraordinary gift of addressing at the same time a more mature audience, conveying thereby not a simple moral but complex and striking ideas.  Each chapter is divided into two sections, the first part a commentary on a particular work in the context of her life and writing career with special attention to her abilities that mark her as a sophisticated craftswoman of fiction and poetry and the second part the text of that work