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}}Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet (who identified as Welsh by adoption).WEB,weblink The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck, 19 March 2013, Hendon, S. & Byrne, A. & Singer, R., (2018) “Reviews”, International Journal of Welsh Writing in English 5(1), p.1-11. doi:weblink Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck"JOURNAL, Robson, Catherine, 2005, Standing on the Burning Deck: Poetry, Performance, History,weblink PMLA, 120, 1 Special Topic: On Poetry (Jan., 2005), 148–162, and "The stately homes of England", have acquired classic status.BOOK, Armstrong, I.,weblink Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830–1900, Blain, V., 1999-02-12, Springer, 978-1-349-27021-7, en,

Early life and education

(File:118 Duke Street, Liverpool 2018.jpg|right|thumb|118 Duke Street, Liverpool, birthplace of Felicia Hemans)Felicia Dorothea Browne was the daughter of George Browne, who worked for his father-in-law's wine importing business and succeeded him as Tuscan and imperial consul in Liverpool, and Felicity, daughter of Benedict Paul Wagner (1718–1806), wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool and Venetian consul for that city.ODNB,weblink Felicia Hemans, 2004, 10.1093/ref:odnb/12888, 978-0-19-861412-8, 3 September 2017, Hemans was the fourth of six children (three boys and three girls) to survive infancy. Her sister Harriett collaborated musically with Hemans and later edited her complete works (7 vols. with memoir, 1839). George Browne's business soon brought the family to Denbighshire in North Wales, where she spent her youth. They lived in a cottage within the grounds of Gwrych Castle near AbergeleLiverpool Evening Express - Friday 15 September 1944 [Page 2] when Felicia was seven years old until she was sixteenBlack's picturesque guide to North Wales, 1874. [Page 36]) and in 1809 moved to Bronwylfa, St. Asaph (Flintshire). She later called Wales "Land of my childhood, my home and my dead".BOOK,weblink The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, 1829, Ballantyne, en, Lydia Sigourney says of her education: The nature of the education of Mrs. Hemans, was favourable to the development of her genius. A wide range of classical and poetical studies, with the acquisition of several languages, supplied both pleasant aliment and needful discipline. She required not the excitement of a more public system of culture,—for the never-resting love of knowledge was her school master.Essay on the Genius and Writings of Mrs. Hemans, by Mrs Sigourney, New York, 1845.Hemans was proficient in Welsh, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.JOURNAL, Courtney, W. S., 1920, Lesser Literary Lights,weblink The North American Review, 211, 775, 793–804, 25120531, 0029-2397, Her sister Harriet remarked that "One of her earliest tastes was a passion for Shakspeare, which she read, as her choicest recreation, at six years old."Memoir of the Life and Writings of Felicia Hemans by her Sister, New York, 1845.

Career

Hemans’ first poems, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, were published in Liverpool in 1808, when she was fourteen, BOOK, Langbauer, Laurie,weblink The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835, 2016-03-25, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-105972-8, en, arousing the interest of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who briefly corresponded with her.BOOK, Bieri, James,weblink Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography : Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816, 2004, University of Delaware Press, 978-0-87413-870-2, en, BOOK, Wolfson, Susan J.,weblink Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, 2021-05-11, Princeton University Press, 978-1-4008-2401-4, en, She quickly followed them up with "England and Spain" (1808), politically addressing the Peninsular War,JOURNAL, Sánchez, Juan, 2014, "England and Spain" and "The Domestic Affections": Felicia Hemans and the Politics of Literature,weblink Studies in Romanticism, 53, 3, 399–416, 24247280, 0039-3762, and "The Domestic Affections" (1812). In contrast to its title, which Hemans did not choose, many of the book's poems explore issues of patriotism and war.JOURNAL, Taylor, Barbara D., 2014-01-02, Felicia Hemans and The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems ; or Mrs Browne's Publishing Project,weblink Women's Writing, en, 21, 1, 9–24, 10.1080/09699082.2014.881060, 0969-9082, Hemans‘ major collections, including The Forest Sanctuary (1825), Records of Woman and Songs of the Affections (1830) were highly popular.BOOK, Kastan, David Scott,weblink The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature: 5-Volume Set, 2006-03-03, Oxford University Press, USA, 978-0-19-516921-8, en, Hemans published many of her pieces in magazines first, enabling her to remain in the public eye and adapt to her audience, as well as earning additional income.BOOK, Sweet, N.,weblink Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, Melnyk, J., 2016-02-02, Springer, 978-0-230-38956-4, en, Many of her pieces were used for schoolroom recitations and collections were presented as prizes, especially to female readers.BOOK, Hughes, Linda K., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry, 14 March 2019, Cambridge University Press, 978-1-107-18247-9,weblink en, Her last books, published in 1834, were Scenes and Hymns of Life and National Lyrics, and Songs for Music. It has been suggested that her late religious poetry, like her early political poetry, marks her entry into an area of dispute that was both public and male-dominated.BOOK, Winckles, Andrew O.,weblink Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: 'Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader', 2019-11-05, Liverpool University Press, 978-1-78962-435-9, en, At the time of her death in 1835, Hemans was a well-known literary figure, highly regarded by contemporaries, and with a popular following in the United States and the United Kingdom.WEB, Felicia Hemans 1793 - 1835,weblink Chawton House, Both Hemans and Wordsworth were identified with ideas of cultural domesticity that shaped the Victorian era.BOOK, Kim, Benjamin,weblink Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800–1830: Romantic Crises, 2013-09-26, Bucknell University Press, 978-1-61148-532-5, en, JOURNAL, Rothstein, David, 1999, Forming the Chivalric Subject: Felicia Hemans and the Cultural Uses of History, Memory, and Nostalgia,weblink Victorian Literature and Culture, 27, 1, 49–68, 25058438, 1060-1503, BOOK, Hawkins-Dady, Mark,weblink Reader's Guide to Literature in English, 2012-12-06, Routledge, 978-1-135-31417-0, en,

Personal life

On 30 July 1812, Felicia Browne married Captain Alfred Hemans, an Irish army officer some years older than herself. The marriage took her away from Wales, to Daventry in Northamptonshire until 1814. During their first six years of marriage, Hemans gave birth to five sons, including G. W. Hemans and Charles Isidore Hemans, and then the couple separated. Marriage had not, however, prevented her from continuing her literary career. Several volumes of poetry were published by the respected firm of John Murray in the period after 1816, beginning with The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (1816) and Modern Greece (1817). The collection Tales and Historic Scenes came out in 1819, the year of the Hemans' separation.WEB, Carter, Charles Cuykendall, 2009, A Guide to the Felicia Hemans Manuscript Material in the Pforzheimer Collection,weblink The New York Public Library, One of the reasons why Hemans was able to write prolifically as a single parent, was that many of the domestic duties of running a household were taken over by her mother, with whom she and her children lived. It was a financial necessity for Hemans to write to support herself, her mother, and the children.WEB, Alex Grammatikos, "The Nothingness of Fame, At Least to a Woman": Felicia Hemans and the Price of Celebrity • Issue 10.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies,weblink 2024-04-05, www.ncgsjournal.com, BOOK, Feldman, Paula R.,weblink British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology, 2001-01-19, JHU Press, 978-0-8018-6640-1, en, On 11 January 1827, Hemans' mother died, leading to the breaking up of the household. Hemans sent her two oldest sons to Rome to join their father, and moved to a suburb of Liverpool with her younger sons.WEB, Hemans [née Browne], Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835), poet,weblink 2024-04-05, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, en, 10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-12888?docpos=2, 26 April 2024, From 1831, Hemans lived in Dublin, which was recommended as healthier than Liverpool. Despite the change, she continued to experience poor health. She died on 16 May 1835. Sources suggest that she had suffered from an attack of scarlet fever, followed by a "consumptive decline", or by "dropsy".BOOK, Hemans, Mrs, The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: With Memoirs and Notes, 1835, American news Company,weblink en, She may have experienced rheumatic fever and heart problems as well as circulatory problems.BOOK, Black, Joseph,weblink The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B, 3e – Modified eBook International Edition, 2021-01-01, Broadview Press, 978-1-55481-520-3, en, She was buried in St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin. William Wordsworth mentioned her in a memorial stanza,JOURNAL, Kennedy, Deborah, 1997, Hemans, Wordsworth, and the "Literary Lady",weblink Victorian Poetry, 35, 3, 267–285, 40003051, 0042-5206, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon,JOURNAL, Ryan, Brandy, 2008, "Echo and Reply": The Elegies of Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett,weblink Victorian Poetry, 46, 3, 249–277, 40347084, 0042-5206, Lydia Huntley Sigourney,JOURNAL, Baym, Nina, 1990, Reinventing Lydia Sigourney,weblink American Literature, 62, 3, 385–404, 10.2307/2926738, 2926738, 0002-9831, and Walter Savage Landor composed memorial verses in her honour.{{Citation |last=Robson |first=Catherine |title=Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca" |date=2012-09-24 |work=Heart Beats |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691119366.003.0003 |access-date=2024-04-05 |publisher=Princeton University Press |doi=10.23943/princeton/9780691119366.003.0003 |isbn=978-0-691-11936-6}} Lydia Huntley Sigourney also wrote a memoir to preface an American edition of Hemans' collected works.BOOK, Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne,weblink The poetical works of Felicia Hemans. With a memoir, Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1853, Boston, Phillips, Sampson, and company, The Library of Congress, {{Wikisource|Landon in The New Monthly 1835/Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans|Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans, by L. E. L.}}{{Wikisource|Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Felicia Hemans|Felicia Hemans, by Lydia Huntley Sigourney}}

Legacy

(File:Felicia Hemans 2.jpg|thumb|left|Felicia Hemans)Hemans's works appeared in nineteen individual books during her lifetime, publishing first with John Murray and later with Blackwoods.WEB, Alex Grammatikos, "The Nothingness of Fame, At Least to a Woman": Felicia Hemans and the Price of Celebrity • Issue 10.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies,weblink 2024-04-05, www.ncgsjournal.com, After her death in 1835, her works were republished widely, usually as collections of individual lyrics and not the longer, annotated works and integrated series that made up her books. For surviving female poets,{{Citation |last=Lootens |first=Tricia |title=Hemans and her American Heirs |date=1999 |work=Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830–1900 |pages=243–260 |editor-last=Armstrong |editor-first=Isobel |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27021-7_12 |access-date=2024-04-05 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-27021-7_12 |isbn=978-1-349-27021-7 |editor2-last=Blain |editor2-first=Virginia}} such as Caroline Norton,JOURNAL, Stone, Marjorie, 2003, Review of Victorian Sappho,weblink Victorian Review, 29, 1, 103–110, 27793515, 0848-1512, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lydia Sigourney and Frances Harper,JOURNAL, Hill, Patricia Liggins, 1981, "Let Me Make the Songs for the People": A Study of Frances Watkins Harper's Poetry,weblink Black American Literature Forum, 15, 2, 60–65, 10.2307/2904083, 2904083, 0148-6179, the French Amable TastuJOURNAL, Boutin, Aimée, 2008, Transnational Migrations: Reading Amable Tastu with Felicia Hemans,weblink Romance Studies, en, 26, 3, 210–220, 10.1179/174581508X322329, 0263-9904, and German Annette von Droste-Hülshoff,BOOK, Burwick, Frederick,weblink The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set, Goslee, Nancy Moore, Hoeveler, Diane Long, 2012-01-30, John Wiley & Sons, 978-1-4051-8810-4, en, she was a valued model. To many readers she offered a woman's voice confiding a woman's trials; to others, a lyricism consonant with Victorian sentimentality and patriotism.JOURNAL, Lootens, Tricia, 1994, Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine "Internal Enemies," and the Domestication of National Identity,weblink PMLA, 109, 2, 238–253, 10.2307/463119, 463119, 0030-8129, JOURNAL, Reno, Seth, 2015, Felicia Hemans and the Affections,weblink CEA Critic, 77, 1, 4–24, 26574753, 0007-8069, In her most successful book, Records of Woman (1828), she chronicles the lives of women, both famous and anonymous.BOOK, Burwick, Frederick,weblink The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set, Goslee, Nancy Moore, Hoeveler, Diane Long, 2012-01-30, John Wiley & Sons, 978-1-4051-8810-4, en, Portraying examples of heroism, rebellion, and resistance, she connects womanhood with "affection's might".WEB, Joey S. Kim: "One deep heart wrung!": Felicia Hemans's Affective Poetics in "The Indian City" and "Woman on the Field of Battle" • Issue18.1 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies,weblink 2024-04-05, www.ncgsjournal.com, Among the works she valued most were the unfinished "Superstition and Revelation" and the pamphlet "The Sceptic," which sought an Anglicanism more attuned to world religions and women's experiences.{{Citation |last=Melnyk |first=Julie |title=Hemans's Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet |date=2001 |work=Felicia Hemans |pages=74–92 |editor-last=Sweet |editor-first=Nanora |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230389564_5 |access-date=2024-04-05 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230389564_5 |isbn=978-1-349-42094-0 |editor2-last=Melnyk |editor2-first=Julie}}Hemans' poem "The Homes of England" (1827) is the origin of the phrase "stately home", referring to an English country house.BOOK, Mandler, Peter,weblink The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, 1997-01-01, Yale University Press, 978-0-300-07869-5, en, Despite her illustrious admirers her stature as a serious poet gradually declined, partly due to her success in the literary marketplace. Her poetry was considered morally exemplary, and was often assigned to schoolchildren; as a result, Hemans came to be seen as more a poet for children rather than on the basis of her entire body of work. Schoolchildren in the U.S. were still being taught "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England" in the middle of the 20th century.WEB, 2019-03-08, "The breaking waves dashed high": The life and afterlife of Felicia Hemans' 'The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England' (1825) {{!, Voyaging through History |url=https://voyagingthroughhistory.exeter.ac.uk/2019/03/08/the-breaking-waves-dashed-high-the-life-and-afterlife-of-felicia-hemans-the-landing-of-the-pilgrim-fathers-in-new-england-1825/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |language=en-GB}}JOURNAL, Downey, Edmund, Hulme, Tom, Vandrei, Martha, 2023-09-15, The Mayflower and Historical Culture in Britain, 1620 – 2020,weblink The English Historical Review, en, 138, 593, 898–932, 10.1093/ehr/cead152, 0013-8266, 10871/134905, free, But by the 21st century, "The Stately Homes of England" refers to Noël Coward's parody, not to the once-famous poem it parodied.BOOK, Winn, Christopher,weblink'&pg=PT141, London By Tube: Over 80 intriguing short walks minutes away from London's tube stops, 2016-04-07, Random House, 978-1-4735-2835-2, en, BOOK, Sheppard, Robert,weblink'&pg=PA56, The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry, 2016-10-05, Springer, 978-3-319-34045-6, en, With the rise in women's studies, Hemans' critical reputation has been re-examined.BOOK, Sweet, N.,weblink's+studies, Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, Melnyk, J., 2016-02-02, Springer, 978-0-230-38956-4, en, BOOK, Wilson, Carol Shiner, Re-visioning romanticism: British women writers, 1776-1837, Haefner, Joel, 1994, University of Pennsylvania press, 978-0-8122-1421-5, Philadelphia, Her work has resumed a role in standard anthologies and in classrooms and seminars and literary studies, especially in the US. Anthologised poems include "The Image in Lava," "Evening Prayer at a Girls' School," "I Dream of All Things Free", "Night-Blowing Flowers", "Properzia Rossi", "A Spirit's Return", "The Bride of the Greek Isle", "The Wife of Asdrubal", "The Widow of Crescentius", "The Last Song of Sappho", "Corinne at the Capitol" and "The Coronation Of Inez De Castro".

Casabianca

(File:Portrait of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (4670849).jpg|thumb|Portrait of Felicia Dorothea Hemans c.1820)First published in August 1826 the poem Casabianca (also known as The Boy stood on the Burning Deck)WEB,weblink JPG, Casablanca : Image, Readytogoebooks.com, 3 September 2017, by Hemans depicts Captain Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca and his 12-year-old son, Giocante, who both perished aboard the ship Orient during the Battle of the Nile. BOOK, Mostert, Noel,weblink The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815, 2008-07-17, W. W. Norton & Company, 978-0-393-11401-0, en, The poem was very popular from the 1850s on and was memorized in elementary schools for literary practice. Other poetic figures such as Elizabeth BishopBOOK, Monteiro, George,weblink Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed, 2012-09-18, McFarland, 978-0-7864-9129-2, en, and Samuel Butler allude to the poem in their own works.BOOK, Harris, John Frederick,weblink Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon: the Man and His Work, 1916, Grant Richards, en, "'Speak, Father!' once again he cried / 'If I may yet be gone! / And'—but the booming shots replied / And fast the flames rolled on."{{ws|s:Felicia Hemans in The Monthly Magazine Volume 2 1826/Casabianca|'Casabianca' by Felicia Hemans]]}}The poem is sung in ballad form (abab) and consists of a boy asking his father whether he had fulfilled his duties, as the ship continues to burn until the magazine catches fire. Hemans adds the following note to the poem: 'Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.'BOOK, Robson, Catherine,weblink Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem, 2012, Princeton University Press, j.cttq94zs, 978-0-691-11936-6, Martin Gardner included Casabianca in his collection of Best remembered poems, along with a childhood parody.BOOK, Gardner, Martin,weblink Best Remembered Poems, 2012-06-19, Courier Corporation, 978-0-486-11640-2, en, Michael R. Turner included it among the "improving gems" of his 1967 Parlour Poetry.BOOK, Turner, Michael R.,weblink Parlour Poetry: A Hundred and One Improving Gems, 1967, Joseph, en, Others wrote modern-day parodies that were much more upbeat and consisted of boys stuffing their faces with peanuts and bread.WEB, 2012-08-27, THIS MONTH'S PARODY (August) Casabianca ('The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck'),weblink 2024-04-06, Jeremy Nicholas. Founded 1947, en-GB, These contrast sharply with the dramatic image created in Hemans' Casabianca.

England and Spain, or, Valour and Patriotism

Her second book, England and Spain, or, Valour and Patriotism, was published in 1808 and was a narrative poem honouring her brother and his military service in the Peninsular War. The poem called for an end to the tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte and for a long-lasting peace. Multiple references to Albion, an older name for Great Britain, emphasize Hemans's patriotism.JOURNAL, 2017-10-17, Romantic Englishwoman and 'the Theatre of Glory': The Role of the Peninsular War in Forging British National Identity,weblink A Moveable Type, 10.14324/111.1755-4527.037, free, "For this thy noble sons have spread alarms, and bade the zones resound with BRITAIN's arms!"WEB,weblink British Women Romantic Poets Project, Digital.lib.ucdavis.edu, 21 January 2016,

Female suicide in Hemans' works

{{See also|Suicide in literature}}Several of Hemans's characters take their own lives rather than suffer the social, political and personal consequences of their compromised situations. At Hemans's time, women writers were often torn between a choice of home or the pursuit of a literary career.JOURNAL, 463119, Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine "Internal Enemies," and the Domestication of National Identity, Lootens, Tricia, PMLA, 1994, 109, 2, 238–253, 10.2307/463119, 163488116, Hemans herself was able to balance both roles without much public ridicule, but left hints of discontent through the themes of feminine death in her writing.JOURNAL,weblink The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans, Jeffrey C., Robinson, 3 September 2017, Romanticism on the Net, 29–30, 10.7202/007715ar, The suicides of women in Hemans's poetry dwell on the same social issue that was confronted both culturally and personally during her life: the choice of caged domestication or freedom of thought and expression."The Bride of the Greek Isle", "The Sicilian Captive", "The Last Song of Sappho" and "Indian Woman's Death Song" are some of the most notable of Hemans' works involving women's suicides. Each poem portrays a heroine who is untimely torn from her home by a masculine force – such as pirates, Vikings, and unrequited lovers – and forced to make the decision to accept her new confines or command control over the situation. None of the heroines are complacent with the tragedies that befall them, and the women ultimately take their own lives in either a final grasp for power and expression or a means to escape victimisation.

Selected works

• Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1808)
• "England and Spain" by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1808)
• The Domestic Affections and Other Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1812)
• "Our Lady’s Well"
• "On the Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy" (Two editions, 1816)
• "Modern Greece" (1817){{Citation |last=Comet |first=Noah |title=Felicia Hemans and the "Exquisite Remains" of Modern Greece |date=2013 |work=Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers |pages=68–89 |editor-last=Comet |editor-first=Noah |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316226_4 |access-date=2024-04-05 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137316226_4 |isbn=978-1-137-31622-6}}
• Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry (1818)
• Hymns on the Works of Nature, for the Use of Children
• Records of Woman: With Other Poems
• "The Better Land"
• The Vespers of Palermo (1823, play)
• Casabianca (1826, poem)
• "Corinne at the Capitol"
• "Evening Prayer at a Girls' School"
• "A Farewell to Abbotsford"
• "The Funeral Day of Sir Walter Scott"
• "Hymn by the Sick-bed of a Mother"
• "Kindred Hearts"
• "The Last Song of Sappho"
• "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
• "The Rock of Cader Idris"
• "Stanzas on the Late National Calamity, On the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
• "Stanzas to the Memory of George III"
• "Thoughts During Sickness: Intellectual Powers"
• "To the Eye"
• "To the New-Born"
• "Woman on the Field of Battle"

Further reading

• "Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature," 3rd ed., 4: 351–60 (2000)
• "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography," 26: 274–77 (2004)
• "Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials," ed. Susan J. Wolfson (2000)
• "Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters," ed. Gary Kelly (2002)
• Emma Mason, "Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century" (2006)
• "Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century," ed. Nanora Sweet & Julie Melnyk (2001)
• Paula Feldman, "The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace," "Keats-Shelley Journal" 46 (1996): 148–76
• Peter W. Trinder, "Mrs. Hemans," U Wales Press (1984)

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