Jean Ingelow

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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.
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Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers.
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Milestones

17 March 1820

JI was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, the eldest of ten children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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June 1863

JI 's immensely popular first volume of verse appeared, entitled Poems.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By 5 June 1869

JI 's famous children's story, Mopsa the Fairy, appeared in print.
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Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell.
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20 July 1897

JI died at the age of seventy-seven at her home, 6 Holland Villas Road, in Kensington.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth

17 March 1820

JI was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, the eldest of ten children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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