Julia Charlotte Maitland was an English writer and traveller, and the great-niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney. She and her husband ran a boys' school in India. She strongly advocated a national system of education for the country.
Julia Maitland's first publication of note was her Letters from Madras, During the Years 1836–1839, by a Lady, which was published anonymously in 1843. Later, she wrote three books for children, all of them popular in their day: Historical Acting Charades (1847); The Doll and Her Friends, or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (1852); and Cat and Dog, or Memoirs of Puss and the Captain, illus. Harrison Weir (1854). These were both humorous and didactic, promoting politeness, benevolence and generosity.
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