“The more I can throw my mind into any undertaking which interests my friends, the more I make to myself a place of refuge from personal suffering.”
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…