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, 1871.
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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.
Friends, Associates
Dora Greenwell
During this time she came to know a number of other writers, including Jean Ingelow
.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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...
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...
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, 1906.
147-8
Carey revealed in this...
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...
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, 1885.
119
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...
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
,...
Timeline
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, Dora Greenwell, Laura Wilson Barker Taylor, Caroline Norton, Amelia B. Edwards, Jennett Humphreys, Dinah Mulock Craik, Arthur Boyd Houghton, and The Brothers Dalziel. 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, Dora Curtis, and Diana Stanley. 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, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier, H. W. Longfellow. Belford Bros., 1876.
Ingelow, Jean, G. E. Farrow, George MacDonald, and Noel Streatfeild. To the Land of Fair Delight. Franklin Watts, 1960.