A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an Only Son

According to Wikipedia: "Juliana Horatia Ewing (née Gatty) (1841–1885) was an English writer of children's stories. She was the second of ten children of the Reverend Alfred Gatty, the vicar of Ecclesfield in Yorkshire, and Margaret Gatty, who was herself a children's author... Roger Lancelyn Green calls her works the "first outstanding child-novels" in English literature.[1] Among her works, which are notable for their sympathetic insight into child-life, their admiration for military life, and their reflection of her strong Anglican faith, are: Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1872), Six to Sixteen (1875), Jan of the Windmill (1876), Jackanapes (1884), and The Story of a Short Life (1885)."