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Jean Ingelow - 19th Century Poet

Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was well-known in her own lifetime as a poet, though she's nearly forgotten today. Her Mopsa the Fairy stands as a children's or young adult book, an early fantasy novel.

Jean Ingelow Poetry
On this site: poems by Jean Ingelow.

Jean Ingelow (Mentor Monograph, 1915)
A profile of Jean Ingelow, reprinted from The Mentor Reading Course, first published in 1915.

Illustration: "My Sonne's Wife, Elizabeth"
From a 1915 profile of Jean Ingelow, a reproduction of an illustration of her poem, "High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire."

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