She loved reading and was passionately devouring Shakespeare
by the age of six. She found it easy to remember poetry, and won a wager by committing Reginald Heber
's Europe, a poem of over...
Friends, Associates
Felicia Hemans
FH
met Reginald Heber
(then a writer and the rector of Hodnet in Shropshire, who later became bishop of Calcutta); he was her first eminent literary acquaintance, and quickly became her friend and mentor.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Naomi Royde-Smith
These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria
to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
Bishop Reginald Heber
, an established poet himself, encouraged FH
to consider writing for the stage.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
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Literary responses
Margaret Holford
In 1825 Baillie reported Wallace being quoted as epigraph by Thomas Charlton Smith
in his recent Bayleaves.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 578
Later again, in 1837, the former Holford (now Hodson) heard from Reginald Heber
that his...
Textual Production
Amelia Opie
AO
wrote commemorative Lines to the Memory of Reginald Heber
, Bishop of Calcutta, in fifteen quatrains.
This is not included in Opie's Collected Poems.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.
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Textual Production
Margaret Holford
After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray
in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie
thanked her...