Surname: Ingelow Forename(s): Jean b. 17 March 1820. d. 20 July 1897. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, children’s author. Pseudonym: “Orris”. Hugely prolific and popular
poet. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, to an Evangelical family. Lived in London from
1850. Member of Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Raynor Parkes’s Portfolio Society. Considered
for the Poet Laureateship on the death of Tennyson in 1892. Poetry volumes include
Poems (1863), A Story of Doom, and Other Poems (1867), Poems (1885), Lyrical and Other Poems (1886). Biographical information: ODNB, Orlando. (AC)