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Ingelow
[in-juh-loh]
noun
Jean, 1820–97, English poet and novelist.
Example Sentences
She is one of a group of women who brought this new note into Victorian poetry,—Louisa Shore, Jean Ingelow, rarely Mrs. Browning, and, I may add, Mrs. Meynell.
The book bore the simple and unpretending title, "Poems, by Jean Ingelow."
A harp, on which Miss Ingelow and her mother before her played right well, stands in one corner.
The conversation turning upon memory—for Jean Ingelow holds pronounced theories on this subject—she leads the way back to the conservatory and points out the picture of her grandfather's house, called Ingelow House after her, with which her very earliest recollections are associated, and her memory dates back to when she was but seventeen months old!
In consequence of its success, Mr. Strahan made an immediate application for any other work by the same pen; accordingly Jean Ingelow's early short tales, signed "Orris," were collected and published under the title of "Stories told to a Child."
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