Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897) was an English poet and novelist, who gained sudden fame in 1863.

Using the pseudonym Oris, Jean Ingelow contributed verses and tales to magazines as a girl, but her first volume, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, only appeared anonymously with an established London publisher when she was in her 30th year.

It ran rapidly through numerous editions and was set to music, proving popular as domestic entertainment.

[5] Anne Thaxter Eaton, writing in A Critical History of Children's Literature, calls it "a well-constructed tale" with "charm and a kind of logical make-believe.

Gerald Massey described The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire as "a poem full of power and tenderness".

[6] Susan Coolidge remarked in a preface to an anthology of Ingelow's poems, "She stood amid the morning dew/And sang her earliest measure sweet/Sang as the lark sings, speeding fair/to touch and taste the purer air.

"[7] "Sailing beyond Seas" (or "The Dove on the Mast") was a favourite poem of Agatha Christie, who quoted it in two novels, The Moving Finger and Ordeal by Innocence.

American composer Emily Bruce Roelofson used Ingelow’s text for her song “I Leaned Out of Windows”.

Rudyard Kipling's short story "My Son's Wife" refers to "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571".