Minor poets who can shed important light on their more famous contemporaries are often overlooked by nineteenth-century scholars. Jean Ingelow is one such minor Victorian poet who has been all but for...
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Jean Ingelow's London home is as lovingly cared for today as it was in the 1880s and 1890s by Ingelow herself. Yet, in a history-conscious city profusely dotted with bright blue markers indicating the...
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In the following essay, written just after Ingelow's death, Street presents a brief overview of Ingelow's life and works, finding her writings “charming” but restricted in ...
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In the following essay, Birchenough offers an enthusiastic review of Ingelow's major works, focusing on Ingelow's love of nature and natural landscapes, the simplicity and sensitivity of...
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In the following essay, originally published in the November 19, 1955, edition of the Saturday Review, Hamilton reflects upon Ingelow's influence on modern poets, particularly Dylan Thomas (191...
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In the following essay, Attebery discusses Ingelow's fantasy novel Mopsa the Fairy and its emphasis on the coming-of-age of its title character as a forerunner to the rite of passage novels by ...
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In the following essay, Auerbach and Knoepflmacher examine Mopsa the Fairy against the backdrop of Victorian notions of the domestic role of women, focusing in particular on the novel's ending....
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In the following essay, Wagner explores the theme of the female imagination in the allegorical Gladys and Her Island.
Eric S. Robertson's notoriously condescending “critical biography&#x...
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In the following essay, Knoepflmacher uses the many letters John Ruskin wrote to Ingelow between 1867 and 1882 to explore the personal and professional relationship the two shared.
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In the following essay, Johnson studies Ingelow's portrayal of feminine spirituality and the role of the woman within the patriarchal world of Christianity in her poem A Story of Doom.
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In the following essay, Knoepflmacher presents an in-depth examination of the ways in which Ingelow, in the short tale “The Life of John Smith” and the fantasy novel Mopsa the Fairy, bot...
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Jean Ingelow
