Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jean Ingelow
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Standard Name: Ingelow, Jean
Birth Name: Jean Ingelow
Pseudonym: Orris
JI
's writings spanned the second half of the nineteenth century and led to an immense popularity during her lifetime. She published five volumes of poetry, eighteen works for children, five novels, and a verse drama, and received both fame and fortune for her works while she lived. Despite the continued appearance of new editions and anthologies, her death marked the almost immediate end of her reputation. Once considered a candidate for the poet laureateship and second only to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
among women poets, she is now hardly remembered. In the early twenty-first century, however, some of her works were coming back into print.
Porter, Rosalind. “A Problem Solved: Authorship of Some Recollections of Jean Inglow and Her Early Friends”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
49
, No. 4, pp. 492-3.
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Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers.
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Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST
recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography...
Textual Production
Kathleen E. Innes
Of about a dozen other books in the series, this work was the only one written by a woman about a woman writer. Royds situates Barrett Browning within a strong tradition of women writers including...
The themes here, says Milford, are those of a New England Victorian girlhood, with plenty of lost love, inclement weather, and loneliness, yet without willed renunciation, domesticity, or piety. Millay's language is usually simple and...
Textual Features
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Some of the fifteen poems chronicle the end of a love affair, perhaps foreshadowing her own marital crisis. Scholar Linda K. Hughes
notes the influence of Christina
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Jean Ingelow
...
Reception
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
's retirement from Sylvia's Journal did not hinder her growing literary reputation. In April 1894 she was featured (as Graham R. Tomson and with a flattering photograph) alongside E. Nesbit
, Christina Rossetti
,...
Reception
Augusta Webster
The novel was a financial failure, and it seems the whole experience encouraged AW
to concentrate on her poetry.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
53, 58
AW
gave Jean Ingelow
a copy of this novel that bore the inscription: one...
Reception
Ann Hawkshaw
AH
's work has been sporadically reprinted. She is one of the poets included in Annie Hone
's 1891 collection The Children's Casket: Favourite Poems for Recitation, along with Jean Ingelow
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB
's reputation fell sharply after the turn of the century. Virginia Woolf
wittily remarked in the 1930s: fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her...
Literary responses
Menella Bute Smedley
Henry Buxton Forman
praised MBS
's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson
and Jean Ingelow
in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for...
Literary responses
Dora Greenwell
This work was praised by her close family and by friends William Knight
and Jean Ingelow
, but DG
avowed that she was pained . . . by the absence of any public notice.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke.
119
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Anne Barker
MAB
's subject-matter is most heterogenous, but she binds it all together by her directness and candour, her power of involving the reader in her joys and sorrows. In Death in Our New Home: New...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Anne Barker
MAB
's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder
, to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo
, taken from a blue-book or government report...
Timeline
By 26 October 1972: Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book...
Writing climate item
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.
Texts
Ingelow, Jean. A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings. Editor Harston, Edward, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850.
Ingelow, Jean. A Sister’s Bye-Hours. Alexander Strahan, 1868.
Ingelow, Jean. A Story of Doom, and Other Poems. Longmans, Green, 1867.
Ingelow, Jean. Allerton and Dreux. Wertheim, 1851.
Ingelow, Jean. Don John. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881.
Ingelow, Jean et al. Home Thoughts and Home Scenes. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1865.
Ingelow, Jean. Lyrical and Other Poems. Longmans, Green, 1886.
Ingelow, Jean. Mopsa the Fairy. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1869.
Ingelow, Jean et al. Mopsa the Fairy. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1964.
Ingelow, Jean. Off the Skelligs. H. S. King, 1872.
Ingelow, Jean. Off the Skelligs. C. Kegan Paul, 1879.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Roberts Brothers, 1863.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Longmans, Green, 1874.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Longmans, Green, 1885.
Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Ingelow, Jean. Sarah de Berenger. Low, Marston, 1879.
Ingelow, Jean. Songs of Seven. Roberts Brothers, 1866.
Ingelow, Jean. Studies for Stories. A. Strahan, 1864.
Ingelow, Jean, and Sir John Everett Millais. Studies for Stories. Alexander Strahan, 1866.
Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers, 1871.
Ingelow, Jean et al. The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier, H. W. Longfellow. Belford Bros., 1876.
Ingelow, Jean et al. To the Land of Fair Delight. Franklin Watts, 1960.