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.
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, No. 4, pp. 492-3.
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Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers.
promotional material
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black
described RNC
as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren.
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Health
Adelaide Procter
By the end of the year, she was confined to bed. She took comfort at this time in poetry by Jean Ingelow
, particularly High Tide in Lincolnshire.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “In a Walled Garden, 1895”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project.
Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell
approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll
was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865...
During this time she came to know a number of other writers, including Jean Ingelow
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
They first met when Ingelow came to have tea with Greenwell and her mother at their home in Durham...
Friends, Associates
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Beginning in 1854, BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...
Anthologization
Dora Greenwell
DG
also contributed during this decade, in collaboration with Jean Ingelow
, Caroline Norton
, and several other women, to Home Thoughts and Home Scenes, In Original Poems, published in 1865, a book of poetry for children.