The New Student's Reference Work/Ingelow, Jean

Ingelow (in′jē̇-lō̇), Jean, a popular English poet and novelist, was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, in 1820. A great part of her poetry is of a devotional type, sweet and simple and filled with beautiful thoughts. Among her noted works are the poem, Divided, the ballad, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, and the larger poem, A Story of Doom. Her works of fiction are Off the Skelligs, Fated to be Free, Sarah de Berenger, Don John and others. She died at London on July 20, 1897.