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Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was an English poet and novelist. As a girl she contributed verses and tales to magazines under the pseudonym of Orris, but her first (anonymous) volume, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, did not appear until her thirtieth year. She followed this book of verse in 1851 with a story, Allerton and Dreux, but it was the publication of her Poems in 1863 which suddenly made her a popular writer. They ran rapidly through numerous editions, were set to music, and sung in every drawing-room, and in the United States obtained even greater public acclaim. In 1867 she published The Story of Doom and Other Poems, and then gave up verse for a while and became industrious as a novelist. Off the Skelligs appeared in 1872, Fated to be Free in 1873, Sarah de Berenger in 1880, and John Jerome in 1886. She also wrote Studies for Stories (1864), Stories Told to a Child (1865), Mopsa the Fairy (1869), and other excellent stories for children. Her third series of Poems was published in 1885.
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Jean Ingelow was born on 17th March at Boston in Lincolnshire, England, and lived there until she was fourteen, when she moved to Ipswich with her parents. She was brought up very strictly, was never taught dancing, and never entered a theatre. Her parents discouraged authorship, but when they gave her no paper she scribbled verses on the white shutters in her bedroom, until they came to realize that she had been endowed with the literary talent which should be encouraged and not buried.
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Jean Ingelow became one of the most famous poets of her period, and though she is now remembered in this way by only a few poems in anthologies, many people suggested that when Tennyson died, she should succeed him as Poet Laureate. Nevertheless, she is now remembered best by one book, her strange and haunting fantasy for children, Mopsa the Fairy (1869). She wrote several other books for adults, but Mopsa the Fairy has always held a place apart, which Charlotte M. Yonge ranked with Alice in Wonderland. --From the Introduction to the original Lippincott edition.
Mopsa the Fairy is a marvelous fantasy, and greatly deserving of more currency among the children of the 21st century. Like George McDonald's At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblins, The Princess and Curdy, and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, it represents a moving characterization of both the cruelties and the absurdities of human culture toward the natural world and toward other beings, both human and animal. --The editor, Mary M. Leue, in the Introduction to the Down-to-Earth edition
Mopsa the Fairy is a marvelous fantasy, and greatly deserving of more currency among the children of the 21st century. Like George McDonald's At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblins, The Princess and Curdy, and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, it represents a moving characterization of both the cruelties and the absurdities of human culture toward the natural world and toward other beings, both human and animal. --The editor, Mary M. Leue, in the Introduction to the Down-to-Earth edition
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- PublisherDodo Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1409935973
- ISBN 13 9781409935971
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages125
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