JI
's biographer Maureen Peters
suggests that an understanding was formed between JI
and a sailor sometime during her late teenage years. Citing evidence from the poet's verses (several of which figure sailors and examine...
Publishing
Jean Ingelow
Rossetti
also benefited from JI
's success. Following the advice of a friend
, Ingelow wrote to an American publisher informing them that she was aware of literary piracy in America, and asking for...
Reception
Jean Ingelow
The work's authorship remained veiled until the appearance of an article by Rosalind Porter
in 2002. Having discovered an early edition bearing a hand-inscribed attribution to Eliza Straffen
, the fourth of Jean's nine siblings...
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Texts
Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972.