Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (née Palmer; 13 July 1856 – 13 December 1911) writing under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter, was a British novelist.

Her father had been an officer in the Royal Artillery before taking religious orders, and was descended from several generations of soldiers.

Her connection with that journal lasted for ten years, and she contributed to it 42 short stories issued as supplements, besides many long serials.

In 1885, Booties' Baby: a story of the Scarlet Lancers, the tale that assured her popularity, appeared in the Graphic.

She found an admirer of her work in leading art critic John Ruskin and in 1888 visited at his home in Sandgate.

Ruskin wrote of 'John Strange Winter' as "the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier".

[1] She was the subject of a biography, John Strange Winter: a volume of personal record (1916) by Oliver Bainbridge, with a foreword by General Sir Alfred Turner.