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)