Ingelow

Ingelow, Miss Jean, was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1820. In 1850 she published anonymously A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, and in 1851 followed a narrative poem, Allertori and Breux. Her first success was with a volume of verses published in 1863, and since then she issued several volumes, which ran through many editions. Towards 1865 she began to write simple stories for children, and her Ilome Tltoughts and Home Scene; Mopsa the Fairy, Little Wonderhorn. and Story of Boom, have found much favour. Still later she produced several novels of high merit, Off the Skelligs, Fated to le Free, Bon John, and Sarah de Bercnger being the best known. She died in 1897.