ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe;  December 25, 2000 ;     48 words ......children's poem: "I am old, so old I can write a letter; my birthday lessons are done. The lambs play always, they know no better; they are only one times one." M.M., Medway A. The lines were written by Jean Ingelow in a poem titled "Seven Times One."

Ingelow, Jean

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;    ELIZABETH KNOWLES;   46 words ...Ingelow, Jean 1820–97 1. Play uppe "The Brides of Enderby". "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571" (1863) 2. But each...

Mob's gun rule; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Column)

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 17, 2003 ;     584 words ......QUESTION What is the story behind Jean Ingelow's poem High Tide On The Coast Of...Brides of Enderby? POET and novelist Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was born in Boston...people and livestock were drowned. Ingelow would have known about this event...

(book review)

College Literature;  September 22, 2000 ;   Vallone, Lynne;   787 words ......Carroll, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Jean Ingelow, George MacDonald, Christina...female writers who followed (Ingelow, Rossetti, and Ewing). Knoepfimacher...particular girl-friends --not so Ingelow, Rossetti, and Ewing, who wrote...of the female authors. For Ingelow, Rossetti and Ewing, the ...

Anniversaries

The Independent - London;  March 17, 1995 ;     158 words ...Births: Edmund Kean, actor, 1789; Jean Ingelow, poet, 1820; Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer, 1834; Kate Greenaway, artist and illustrator, 1846; Margaret Grace Bondfield...

Enderby

Canadian Encyclopedia;    DUANE THOMSON;   159 words ......During an afternoon tea party, the sight of the spring flood of the Shuswap R inspired the recitation of a poem by Jean Ingelow, "High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire," and the place-name Enderby mentioned in the poem so enchanted the ladies...

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  January 1, 1999 ;   Anonymous;   145 words ......protagonist, downplaying sexual differences and sentimentalizing an arrested childhood. By contrast, those by women, including Jean Ingelow, Christina Rossetti, and Juliana Ewing, offer more realistic stories that allow their girl characters to grow and mature...

Twists and turns of womanhood; Stratford Poetry Festival Shakespeare...

The Birmingham Post (England);  July 10, 2001 ;     315 words ......Winged Words presented poets with whom we are familiar, including Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Jean Ingelow. Then, there were many we have never heard of but whose work was refreshingly varied exhibiting social conscience and...

Victorian childhoods

Michigan Quarterly Review;  April 1, 2000 ;   Spilka, Mark;   787 words ......feminine identities: John Ruskin, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll), George MacDonald, Jean Ingelow, Christina Rossetti, and Juliana Horatia Ewing. As his gender choices indicate, he is hard put to balance males and...

Friday night lights lost glimmer 40 years ago in Texas high schools.

The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  November 18, 2003 ;     787 words ......wistful, elegant column the next day recounted the simple pleasure of graceful young athletes and, perhaps, the solace to be taken in the pursuit of innocence lost. Quoting English writer Jean Ingelow, he wrote, Youth, youth, how buoyant are thy hop

Friday night lights lost glimmer 40 years ago in Texas high schools.(The...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 18, 2003 ;   Sherrington, Kevin;   787 words ......wistful, elegant column the next day recounted the simple pleasure of graceful young athletes and, perhaps, the solace to be taken in the pursuit of innocence lost. Quoting English writer Jean Ingelow, he wrote, Youth, youth, how buoyant are thy hop

GADFLY - Cushy life of the keelman's love

The Northern Echo;  June 30, 2004 ;   MIKE AMOS;   787 words ......ere the early dew was falling." Adapted from a Victorian one-hit wonder, The High Tide on the Lincolnshire Coast, by Jean Ingelow, it was about a milkmaid who went out to bring in the cattle and floated home dead on the flood. From distant childhood...

Forest choir in concert

Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  April 23, 2008 ;     33 words ...The Forest of Dean Male Voice Choir sang in St Stephen's Church, Cinderford on Saturday. The choir was accompanied by Sarah and Mark Bick, Mathew Macer- Wright, and Luke Ingelow in front of more than 50 people.

'He was almost passing out... He was so upset'

Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK);  September 25, 2007 ;     617 words ......cancer ended on Monday, September 3, at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. He was 43 years old. Mr Weston, of Ingelow Close, Blurton, said: "I never set out to attack the hospital. "When Mark came back from his biopsy test, he was deflated...

Reunited.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  October 10, 2003 ;     354 words ......1958-60. B. Smith, Porthleah, Townshend , Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 69Q Tel: 0173 6850232. I AM looking for lads who lived in Ingelow Road, London, in 1966. Frankie Aitken, Porky and John Greally are the names I remember. Someone left phone number with my son...