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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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.
Textual Production
Catherine Gore
CG
's historical drama Don Juan of Austria (adapted from Don Juan D'Autriche by Casimir Delavigne
) began a twelve-night run at Covent Garden
.
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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Carey revealed in this...
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...
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...