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Peal accession no. 9584a.
 section false xt7qjq0stw34_1808 xt7qjq0stw34 Jean Ingelow, whose "High Tide of the Coast
of Lincolnshire" everyone was quoting during
our recent storm that sent the tide up into all
manner of unexpected places. lives in an old- ,
fashioned. cream-colored, stone house in Kent;-
ington, set in the midst of extensive grounds,
with handsome trees and many beautiful flowers
and shrubs. At least, this is her home in Sum-
mer time; her lungs are not very strong. and in
Winter she occupies a. little cottage in the South
of France, on the shores of the Mediterranean,
covered with vines and smothered with flowers.
She is nearly 60 now, but does not‘look- half her
age, her eyes are so bright and her cheeks as 4
‘ rosy and rounded as a girl's. Of late years she

has written very little. ’6 . ,

But a few moments‘ ride from London is
the Remington homcof Jean Ingelow, whose
poetry is so familiar to American readers.
The. house is an odd one. of cream colored
stone and one scarcely knows whether it has ‘
two or three stories. Liberal grounds sur-x:
round the house and even in winter show a.
gardeners mm. In summer the entire lawn ,
is bordered and dotted with flowers, for the ‘
poet is a pronounced horticulturlst. During
the cold weather a spacious conservatory at:
‘ tschcd to the house shelters the flowers, and;
in this hot-house of palms and buds she is,
often found by her friends, reading or writ-
ing. Flowers bloom. too, in almost every
room in the house. on centre tables. mantels
and in thebay windows. Jeanlngelow 3 home
is that of a. poet, with hooks on every hand
‘ and always within reach wherever you may

chance to sit down. The poet is now in mid-
dle life, but her face shows not the slightest _
trace of years. Her manner is most. friendly,
: her conversation charming and in a most
‘ musical voice. She has a remarkably correct
knowledge of American literature, the titles
, of all the latest American books beings oken
by her with wonderful fluency. Her c arac-
ter is eminently practical without a touch of 1
sentimentality. All her literary writing is
done in the forenoon; her pen is never putto
uper by gaslight. She composes slowly, and
Eer verses are often kept by her ior months
before they are allowed to go cutter publica-
tion. She shuns society, and the most. severe
g‘art of the winter is Spent in th South-ob-
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JEAN INGELO\V.

“ GENTLE JEAN INGELOW,” as she was lovingly called by those
who could claim the distinction of her friendship, was probably
the most popular woman-poet of her day. In her own country
her books ran through a twenty-third edition, and in the United
States were sold in excess of 200,000 volumes. Among her
intimate friends were the most famous men of her times : Rus-
kin, Tennyson, Rossetti, Oliver \Vendell Holmes, and James
Russell Lowell. Her first book of poems was published when
she was forty-three years old, anonymously at her own expense.

 

 

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119. JEAN INGELOW.

J can Innelow, English poet and novelist ; born at Bos-

ton, Lincocinshire, in 1880. Her poems are of an elevated

st 10, cvmcmg much tender feeling and Erezit sympathy
'elligs,” “Don
John,“ and “ Sarah de Bernngcr,” are very popular, and

With nature. Her novels "Off the S

she has written, also, very charmingly for children.