Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and novelist. Née Darling. Pseudonym: I. D. Fenton. Alternative signature: J. E. Aylmer, Isabella D. Fenton. Born in Bell’s Hill, Northumberland. Married Capt. Fenton John Aylmer on 9 June 1857; widowed on 9 April 1862. Author of Adventures of Mrs. Colonel Somerset in Caffraria (1858), Memoirs of a Lady in Waiting (1860), Distant Homes: Or the Graham Family in New Zealand, and Alec Tomlin: or, Choose Wisely (1873). Biographical information: Curran Index, At the Circulating Library. (CC)