Author:
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897), Victorian poet and novelist
Publication details:
No date. 15 Holland St, Church Place [Kensington, London]
See Maureen Peters, 'Jean Ingelow, Victorian Poetess' (1972), and also Ingelow’s entry in the Oxford DNB, which emphasizes her popularity in America, stating that, on Tennyson’s death in 1892, ‘a group of Americans sent Queen Victoria an unsuccessful petition supporting the appointment of Jean Ingelow as the first woman poet laureate of England’, and that by 1901 ‘200,000 copies of Ingelow's works had been sold in the USA’. 2pp, 16mo. On a leaf of grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased, with small piece torn away at one corner (not affecting text). Signed ‘Jean Ingelow’.