Born: 17 March 1820, United Kingdom
Died: 20 July 1897
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Oris
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Jean Ingelow, an English poet and novelist. Her principal volume of poems, brought out in 1863, won the enthusiastic praise of critics and the instant approval of the public, and passed through twenty-three editions in England and America.
Subsequently she wrote another book of poems, an several novels. Her best known poem was The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. There were blemishes of affectation and stilted phraseology in her style, but she wrote, in verse and sweetness which her sentiment and her heart inspired, and in prose she displayed the gift of narrative, a feeling for character, and a delicate underlying tenderness.
From Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Designed and Arranged by William C. King. Published in 1900 by The King-Richardson Co. Copyright 1903 The King-Richardson Co.:
Jean Ingelow, Popular English Poetress, 1820 – 1897 A.D.
Jean Ingelow was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, in 1820, and died in July, 1897.
Her father was a banker and a man of superior intelligence. Her mother was of Scottish descent. Jean was a shy girl and attracted no attention until she was over thirty years of age. She then published a volume of poems which in her quiet way she had been preparing for some years. Their merit was at once recognized and the authoress became famous.
Three poems in this first volume were especially noteworthy: “Divided,” “High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,” and “Songs of Seven.” The last name consists of seven poems portraying seven epochs in the life of woman.
Having been brought to public notice and there she demand for her work, she wrote others, Studies for stories, Poor mat, A Sister’s Bye-Hours, The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood.
Within ten years after she came into public notice the sale of her poems in America, alone, reached 93,000 and her prose works a sale of 35,000.
Miss Ingelow made London her home after becoming a recognized authoress and, for several years, gave three times per week a “Copyright Dinner” to twelve needy persons who had recently come from the hospitals. This unique charity was a fitting channel for the expenditure of a part of her income from her books.