Jean Ingelow

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Jean Ingelow

British poet and novelist

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Born:: March 17, 1820, Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng.

Died:: July 20, 1897, London (aged 77)

Notable Works:: “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571”

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Jean Ingelow (born March 17, 1820, Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died July 20, 1897, London) was an English poet and novelist popular in her own day and remembered for her narrative poem “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571” (1863), which reveals considerable command of language and a power to evoke feeling. The friend of many leading painters and writers, Ingelow was modest and retiring and spent much of her earnings from writing on charitable works. Poems (1863) contains her best work; also of note are a novel, Sarah de Berenger (1879), and a children’s book, Mopsa the Fairy (1869; ...(100 of 91 words)

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