Ingelow, Jean

in'je-lo, Jean (1830-1897), an English poet and novelist. Miss Ingelow was born in the old town of Boston, Lincolnshire. Although she wrote from an early age reputation came only with the publication of a volume of poems in 1863. The more famous of these poems are High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, Songs of Seven, Supper at the Mill, and Divided. She published several other books, among them Stories Told to a Child, Mopsa, the Fairy, The Little Wonder Horn, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems. Off the Skelligs was her first novel of any length. Fated to Be Free is a sequel to it. It is said that her writings have been more popular in America than in her own country.

As the voice of Mrs. Browning grew silent the songs of Miss Ingelow began, and had instant and merited popularity. They sprang up suddenly and tunefully as skylarks from the daisy-spangled, hawthorn-bordered meadows of old England, with a blitheness long unknown, and in their idyllic underflights moved with the ten-derest currents of human life.--Stedman.