Julie's sister Horatia Katharine Frances Gatty (1846–1945) published a memorial of her life and works, which includes a publication history of her stories.

[7] They show notably sympathetic insight into child life, admiration for things military, and a reflection of Ewing's strong Anglican faith.

They include Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1873),[8] Six to Sixteen (1875), Jackanapes (1884), Daddy Darwin's Dovecot (1884),[9] and The Story of a Short Life (1885).

A talented artist herself, Ewing's works were frequently illustrated by such notable figures as George Cruikshank and Randolph Caldecott.

The Story of a Short Life inspired Grace Kimmins to start the Guild of the Brave Poor Things to help children with disabilities in London.

He wrote in his autobiography, Something of Myself: "One [book] I have still, a bound copy of Aunt Judy's Magazine of the early 'seventies, in which appeared Mrs. Ewing's "Six to Sixteen".

[13] In 1899 a stained-glass window by Charles Eamer Kempe in memory of Alexander and Juliana Horatia Ewing was installed in the Church of All Saints, Trull, overlooking their graves.