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INGELOW, JEAN (1820—1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INGELOW, See also:JEAN (1820—1897) , See also:English poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Boston, in See also:Lincolnshire, on the 17th of See also:March 182o. She was the daughter of See also:William Ingelow, a banker of that See also:town. As a girl she contributed verses and tales to the magazines under the See also:pseudonym of " Orris," but her first (See also:anonymous) See also:volume, A Rhyming See also:Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, did not appear until her thirtieth See also:year. This See also:Tennyson said had " very charming things " in it, and he declared he should " like to know " the author, who was later admitted to his friendship. See also:Miss Ingelow followed this See also:book of See also:verse in 1851 with a See also:story, Allerton and See also:Dreux, but it was the publication of her Poems in 1863 which suddenly raised her to the See also:rank of a popular writer. They ran rapidly through numerous See also:editions, were set to See also:music, and sung in every See also:drawing-See also:room, and in See also:America obtained an even greater hold upon public estimation. In 1867 she published The Story of See also:Doom and other Poems, and then gave up verse for a while and became industrious as a novelist. Off the Skelligs appeared in 1872, Fated to be See also:Free in 1873, Sarah de See also:Berenger in 188o, and See also:John See also:Jerome in 1886. She also wrote Studies for Stories (1864), Stories told to a See also:Child (1865), Mopsa the See also:Fairy (1869), and other excellent stories for See also:children. Her third See also:series of Poems was published in 1885. She resided for the last years of her See also:life in See also:Kensington, and somewhat outlived her popularity as a poet. She died on the 20th of See also:July 1897.

Her poems, which were collected in one volume in 1898, have often the genuine ballad See also:

note, and as a writer of songs she was exceedingly successful. " Sailing beyond Seas " and " When Sparrows build " in Supper at the See also:Mill were deservedly among the most popular songs of the See also:day; but they See also:share, with the See also:rest of her See also:work, the faults of affectation and See also:stilted phraseology. Her best-known poem was the " High See also:Tide on the See also:Coast of See also:Lincoln-See also:shire," which reached the highest level of excellence. The blemishes of her See also:style were cleverly indicated in a well-known See also:parody of See also:Calverley's; a false archaism and a deliberate See also:assumption of unfamiliar and unnecessary synonyms for See also:simple See also:objects were among the most vicious of her mannerisms. She wrote, however, in verse with a sweetness which her sentiment and her See also:heat inspired, and in See also:prose she displayed feeling for See also:character and the See also:gift of narrative; while a delicate underlying tenderness is never wanting in either See also:medium to her sometimes tortured expression. Miss Ingelow was a woman of See also:frank and hospitable See also:manners, with a look of the See also:Lady Bountiful of a See also:country See also:parish. She had nothing of the professional authoress or the " See also:literary lady" about her, and, as with characteristic simplicity she was accustomed to say, was no See also:great reader. Her temperament was rather that of the See also:improvisatore than of the professional author or artist.

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