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Jean Ingelow

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INGELOW, JEAN English poet and novelist, was born at Boston, Lincs., on March 17, 182o, and died in London on July 20, 1897. Jean Ingelow, who was the daughter of a Boston banker, is famous for one poem, "High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire"; many of her ballads and songs were set to music in the '7os and had a great vogue. Her works include Poems (1863) ; The Story of Doom and other Poems (1867) ; Poems (1885) ; several novels, of which Sarah de Berenger (188o) is perhaps the best known, and a number of excellent children's books, including Mopsa the Fairy (1869) .