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John Henry Ingram

1842 – 1916

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Lived 1842 – 1916 (aged 73–74). John Henry Ingram was a British biographer.

John Henry Ingram (November 16, 1842 – February 12, 1916) was an English biographer and editor with a special interest in Edgar Allan Poe.

Ingram was born at 29 City Road, Finsbury Square, Middlesex, and died at Brighton, England. His family lived at Stoke Newington, recollections of which appear in Poe's works.

J. H. Ingram dedicated himself to the resurrection of Poe's reputation, maligned by the dubious memoirs of Rufus Wilmot Griswold; he published the first reliable biography of the author and a four volume collection of his works. Sarah Helen Whitman's correspondence with Ingram, with her letters from Poe and a daguerreotype portrait, was added to the library of material he was assembling; Ingram's Poe collection is now held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Works Flora Symbolica; or, the Language and Sentiment of Flowers, London: Frederick Warne and Co. New York: Scribner, Welford and Co., 1869. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1888 (Eminent Women Series). Christopher Marlowe and His Associates, London: Grant Richards, 1904. The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, London : Reeves & Turner, 1912.

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1842, City Road
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biographer (1842–1916)

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John Henry Ingram was born in 1842 in City Road.

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John Henry Ingram was a biographer.

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· Wikipedia: John Henry Ingram

· Wikidata: Q268396

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