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Jean Ingelow

Jean Ingelow
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Short Name: Jean Ingelow
Full Name: Ingelow, Jean 1820-1897
Birth Year: 1820
Death Year: 1897

Ingelow, Jean, daughter of W. Ingelow, Boston, Lincolnshire, was born in 1820. Her writings are well and favourably known. Her poetical pieces have been published as Poems, 1863, and A Story of Doom and other Poems, 1867. From her Poems, 1863, the cento "And didst Thou love the race that loved not Thee" (Love of Christ in the Congregational Church Hymnal 1887, is taken.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Born: March 17, 1820, Boston, Lincolnshire, England.
Died: July 20, 1897, Kensington, London, England.
Buried: Brompton Cemetery, London, England.

A well known 19th Century poet, Ingelow’s works include:

A Rhyming Chronical of Incidents and Feelings, 1850
Poems, 1863
A Story of Doom and Other Poems, 1867
Mopsa the Fairy

One of her more popular poems was "O Fair Dove, O Fond Dove."

--www.hymntime.com/tch

Wikipedia Biography

Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897) was an English poet and novelist, who gained sudden fame in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children.
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