web hosting short URLs photo sharing World's Greatest Classic Books Feature: Felicia Dorthea Hemans Featured works: All Books Written By Felicia Dorthea Hemans BOOK LINKS abebooks.co.uk. All-Ink.com AlphaCraze.com Amazon.ca ... eCampus.com Amazon.com Search: Books Popular Music Classical Music Video Enter keywords... MUSIC LINKS OldGlory.com PlayCentric PosterNow PushPosters ... Tower Records SEARCH THE WEB looksmart.co.uk People-Finder.com Search. Get Paid. Be Smart. Born: September 25, 1793, in Liverpool, England Died: May 16, 1835, in Dublin, Ireland Felicia Dorthea Hemans was an English Romantic poet. Her prolific writings, like the Victorian poetry that would follow, targeted the domesticity of her female audience. Her works, full of the theme of love, concentrate on values of home, hearth, family, country and God. She is most noted for her shorter pieces, such as Casabianca and The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Her father, Irish-born George Browne, was a wealthy merchant who retired while his daughter was very young. She was the fifth of seven children who were educated primarily by their mother, Felicity Wagner Browne. When her father retired, the family moved to Wales and lived at Gwrych in Denbighshire. Because her letters don't mention her father, it has been assumed that he left the family after two business ventures failed in England. Felicia began reading Shakespeare by the time she was six years old. With her intelligence and love of literature, she could recite poems and dramas from many writers, including | |
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