dots-menu
×
Home  »  library  »  BIOS  »  Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835)

C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835)

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne. An English-Irish poet; born (Browne) in Liverpool, Sept. 25, 1793; died at Redesdale, near Dublin, May 16, 1835. At the age of fourteen she published creditable poems in newspapers. Her highest note was reached in the collections: ‘Domestic Affections’; ‘Tales and Historic Scenes in Verse’; and ‘Lays of Many Lands.’ Other compositions are: ‘Forest Sanctuary’; ‘Songs of the Cid’; and ‘The Siege of Valencia, the Last Constantine.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).