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Mrs. Alfred Gatty
1809–1873
Best known for warm, thoughtful stories for children, she also brought a naturalist’s curiosity to her writing and to her studies of the seashore. Her books mix gentle moral lessons with a close eye for the living world.
2 Audiobooks
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
Aunt Judy's Tales
by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
About the author
Born Margaret Scott in 1809, she became widely known in print as Mrs. Alfred Gatty and is now usually identified as Margaret Gatty. She was an English writer remembered especially for books for young readers, including Parables from Nature and Aunt Judy’s Tales.
Her interests reached beyond fiction. She also wrote about marine life and published work on seaweeds, showing the same patient, observant spirit that appears in her stories. That blend of storytelling and natural history helped make her work distinctive in Victorian literature.
She died in 1873. Today she is often noted both as a popular children’s author and as a writer who shared nineteenth-century natural history with a broad general audience.