Felicia Hemans

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Standard Name: Hemans, Felicia
Birth Name: Felicia Dorothea Browne
Married Name: Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Pseudonym: F. H.
Pseudonym: A Lady
A major Romantic poet and the most popular woman poet (or poetess as she and others expressed it) in English during the nineteenth century, FH published nineteen volumes of verse and two dramas. While most of her work was poetry—songs, lyric poetry, dramatic lyrics (arguably dramatic monologues), narrative poetry, and verse drama—she also published literary criticism, and some of her private letters survive. After her death she became in the mid-Victorian period a household name and a staple for memorizing as the popular educational practice at home and in the colonies. Her evocation of the domestic affections and the values associated with English national valour and imperial strength resonated strongly with her contemporaries, but in the late Victorian period her work fell out of favour. Recently interest has revived in her as a female voice within Romanticism, and as a vehicle for bourgeois, domestic, and British hegemony that nevertheless also critiques the very values and ideals for which her work became a byword. Recognition of her as a major poetic voice has accompanied a substantial shift in the understanding of British Romanticism.

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Textual Production Mary Tighe
Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM
Textual Production Grace Aguilar
In a letter of 30 November 1843—also to Mrs Samuel Cohen—GA noted having read the life of Mrs Hemans , written by her sister, in the poet's posthumous Works; she hoped to be...
Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
In the same year, 1894, AMFR contributed critical introductions to selections by Felicia Hemans and Joanna Baillie in The English Poets, edited by Humphry Ward (husband of the well-known novelist ).
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, pp. 4: 221 -34.
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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Mary Ann Browne
This time her title page quotes Felicia Hemans saying that the life of Woman is bound up in her affections, that we were born / For love and grief.
Browne, Mary Ann. Ada. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Hatchard and Son; and W. Benning.
title page
Her verse address to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Stickney Ellis
Two years later, William Ellis began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press.
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Sarah Stickney contributed to it...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ rented a cottage outside Rhyl near St Asaph in Wales, for herself, her sister Geraldine , and her brothers, intending to cultivate her friendship with Felicia Hemans , who lived about a mile away.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03.
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Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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