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JEAN n'jä-lō), an English poet and novelist; born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1820. Her first efforts in verse were published anonymously in 1850. A good deal of her poetry is of a devotional or religious cast. But she also published some powerful ballads, and of her minor pieces "The High-tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571," is probably both the finest and the best known. Of her larger poems, "A Story of Doom" (1867) has been the most successful. Among her novels may be specially mentioned "Off the Skelligs," a very fine work; "Fated to be Free" (1875); and "Sarah de Berenger" (1880). She died July 19, 1897.