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, 2002, pp. 492-3.
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Ingelow, Jean. The Monitions of the Unseen; and, Poems of Love and Childhood. Roberts Brothers, 1871.
promotional material
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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.
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...
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...
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, 1990.
They first met when Ingelow came to have tea with Greenwell and her mother at their home in Durham...
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.
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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...
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...
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.
qtd. in
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
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
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(26 October 1972): 11
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, 3 vols.
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. Author’s Complete Edition, 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, 2 vols.
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.