Dedication: To George K. Ingelow, Your loving sister offers you these poems, partly as expression of her affection, partly for the pleasure of connecting her effort wth your name. Dated June 1863 at Kennington. 520 pp. plus Notes. Book has leather title pastedown at head of spine, frontispiece: " And the blackbirds helped us with the story for they knew it well." - Page 225.

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.