Ingelow

[ in-juh-loh ]

noun

1. 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.

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Mrs. Ingelow is, to our mind, the most charming of all living writers for children, and 'Mopsa' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks.

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The book bore the simple and unpretending title, "Poems, by Jean Ingelow."

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A harp, on which Miss Ingelow and her mother before her played right well, stands in one corner.

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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!

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