“Those who go through life with the fewest affections, thus exposing the…” — Felicia Dorothea Hemans

“Those who go through life with the fewest affections, thus exposing the fewest vulnerable points to sorrow, ought to be, and may well be, the happiest.”

Considering the painful vulnerability that accompanies deep attachment · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

About Felicia Dorothea Hemans

25 September 1793–16 May 1835

Felicia Dorothea Hemans, born Felicia Dorothea Browne on 25 September 1793 and dead on 16 May 1835, was among the most celebrated poets of the early nineteenth century. In her lifetime she was read with an enthusiasm now difficult to imagine: her poems circulated throughout Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the…

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