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See also:HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA (1793-1835) , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:Duke See also:Street, See also:Liverpool, on the 25th of See also:September 1793. Her See also:father, See also:George See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne, of Irish extraction, was a See also:merchant in Liverpool, and her See also:mother, whose See also:maiden name was See also:Wagner, was the daughter of the See also:Austrian and Tuscan See also:consul at Liverpool. Felicia, the fifth of seven See also:children, was scarcely seven years old when her father failed in business, and retired with his See also:family to Gwrych, near Abergele, Denbighshire; and there the See also:young poet and her See also:brothers and sisters See also:grew up in a romantic old See also:house by the See also:sea-See also:shore, and in the very midst of the mountains and myths of See also:Wales. Felicia's See also:education was desultory. Books of See also:chronicle and See also:romance, and every See also:kind of See also:poetry, she read with avidity; and she also studied See also:Italian, See also:Spanish, Portuguese and See also:German. She played both See also:harp and piano, and cared especially for the See also:simple See also:national melodies of Wales and See also:Spain. In 18o8, when she was only fourteen, a See also:quarto See also:volume of her Juvenile Poems; was published by subscription, and was harshly criticized in the Monthly See also:Review. Two of her brothers were fighting in Spain under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Moore; and Felicia, fired with military See also:enthusiasm, wrote See also:England and Spain, or Valour and Patriotism, a poem afterwards translated into Spanish. Her second volume, The Domestic Affections and other Poems, appeared in 1812, on the See also:eve of her See also:marriage to See also:Captain See also:Alfred Hemans. She lived for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at See also:Daventry, where her See also:husband was See also:adjutant of the See also:Northamptonshire See also:militia. About this time her father went to See also:Quebec on business and died there; and, after the See also:birth of her first son, she and her husband went to live with her mother at Bronwylfa, a house near St See also:Asaph. Here during the next six years four more children—all boys—were born; but in spite of domestic cares and failing See also:health she still read and wrote indefatigably. Her poem entitled The Restoration of See also:Works of See also:Art to See also:Italy was published in 1816, her See also:Modern See also:Greece in 1817, and in 18r$ See also:Translations from See also:Camoens and other Poets.
In 1818 Captain Hemans went to See also:Rome, leaving his wife, shortly before the birth of their fifth See also:child, with her mother at Bronwylfa. There seems to have been a tacit agreement, perhaps on See also:account of their limited means, that they should See also:separate. Letters were interchanged, and Captain Hemans was often consulted about his children; but the husband and wife never met again. Many See also:friends—among them the See also:bishop of St Asaph and Bishop See also:Heber--gathered See also:round Mrs Hemans and her children. In 1819 she published Tales and Historic Scenes in See also:Verse, and gained a See also:prize of L50 offered for the best poem on The See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
Meeting of See also:Wallace and See also:Bruce on the See also:Banks of the Carron. In 182o appeared The Sceptic and Stanzas to the Memory of the See also:late See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King, In See also:June 1821 she won the prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature for the best poem on the subject of Dart-See also:moor, and began her See also:play, The See also:Vespers of See also:Palermo. She now applied herself to a course of German See also:reading. Korner was her favourite German poet, and her lines on the See also:grave of Korner were one of the first English tributes to the See also:genius of the young soldier-poet. In the summer of 1823 a volume of her poems was published by See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray, containing " The See also:Siege of See also:Valencia," " The Last See also:Constantine " and " Belshazzar's Feast." The Vespers of Palermo was acted at Covent See also:Garden, See also:December 12, 1823, arytl Mrs Hemans received L200 for the copy= right; but, though the leading parts were taken by Young and See also:Charles See also:Kemble, the play was a failure, and was withdrawn after the first performance. It was acted again in See also:Edinburgh in the following See also:April with greater success, when an See also:epilogue, written for it by Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott at See also:Joanna See also:Baillie's See also:request, was spoken by Harriet See also:Siddons. This was the beginning of a cordial friendship between Mrs Hemans and Scott. In the same See also:year she wrote De See also:Chatillon, or the Crusaders; but the See also:manuscript was lost, and the poem was published after her See also:death, from a rough copy. In 1824 she began " The See also:Forest See also:Sanctuary,"
which appeared a year later with the "See also:Lays of Many Lands" and See also:miscellaneous pieces collected from the New Monthly See also:Magazine and other See also:periodicals.
In the See also:spring of 1825 Mrs Hemans removed from Bronwylfa, which had been See also:purchased by her See also:brother, to Rhyllon, a house on an opposite height across the See also:river Clwyd. The contrast between the two houses suggested her Dramatic See also:Scene between Bronwylfa and Rhyllon. The house itself was See also:bare and unpicturesque, but the beauty of its surroundings has been celebrated in " The See also:Hour of Romance," " To the River Clwyd in See also:North Wales," " Our See also:Lady's Well " and " To a Distant Scene." This time seems to have been the most tranquil in Mrs Hemans's See also:life. But the death of her mother in See also:January 1827 was a second See also:great breaking-point in her life. Her See also:heart was affected, and she was from this time an acknowledged invalid. In the summer of 1828 the Records of Woman was published by See also:Blackwood, and in the same year the See also:home in Wales was finally broken up by the marriage of Mrs Hemans's See also:sister and the departure of her two See also:elder boys to their father in Rome. Mrs Hemans removed to Wavertree, near Liverpool. But, although she had a few intimate friends there—among them her two subsequent biographers, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry F. See also:Chorley and Mrs See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence of Wavertree See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall—she was disappointed in her new home, She thought the See also:people of Liverpool stupid and provincial; and they, on the other See also:hand, found her uncommunicative and See also:eccentric. In the following summer she travelled by sea to See also:Scotland with two of her boys, to visit the Hamiltons of Chiefswood.
Here she enjoyed " See also:constant, almost daily, intercourse " with Sir Walter Scott, with whom she and her boys afterwards stayed some time at See also:Abbotsford. " There are some whom we meet, and should like ever after to claim as kith and See also:kin; and you are one of those," was Scott's compliment to her at parting. One of the results of her Edinburgh visit was an See also:article, full of praise, judiciously tempered with See also:criticism, by See also:Jeffrey himself for the Edinburgh Review. Mrs Hemans returned to Wavertree to write her Songs of the Affections, which were published See also:early in 183o. In the following June, however, she again See also:left home, this time to visit See also:Wordsworth and the See also:Lake See also:country; and in See also:August she paid a second visit to Scotland. In 1831 she removed to See also:Dublin. Her poetry of this date is chiefly religious. Early in 1834 her See also:Hymns for Childhood, which had appeared some years before in See also:America, were published in Dublin. At the same time appeared her collection of National Lyrics, and shortly afterwards Scenes and Hymns of Life. She was planning also a See also:series of German studios, one of which, on See also:Goethe's See also:Tasso, was completed and published in the New Monthly Magazine for January 1834. In intervals of acute suffering she wrote the lyric Despondency and Aspiration, and dictated a series of sonnets called Thoughts during Sickness, the last of which, " Recovery," was written when she fancied she was getting well. After three months spent at See also:Redesdale, See also:Archbishop See also:Whately's country seat, she was again brought into Dublin, where she lingered till spring. Her last poem, the See also:Sabbath See also:Sonnet, was dedicated to her brother on See also:Sunday April 26th, and she died in Dublin on the 16th of May 1835 at the See also:age of See also:forty-one.
Mrs Hemans's poetry is the See also:production of a See also:fine imaginative and enthusiastic temperament, but not of a commanding See also:intellect or very complex or subtle nature. It is the outcome of a beautiful but singularly circumscribed life, a life spent in romantic seclusion, without much worldly experience, and warped and saddened by domestic unhappiness and See also:physical suffering. An undue preponderance of the emotional is its prevailing characteristic. Scott complained that it was " too poetical," that it contained " too many See also:flowers " and " too little See also:fruit." Many of her See also:short poems, such as " The Treasures of the Deep," " The Better See also:Land," " The Homes of England," " See also:Casabianca," " The See also:Palm See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
Tree," " The See also:Graves of a See also:Household," " The See also:Wreck," " The Dying See also:Improvisatore," and " The Lost See also:Pleiad," have become See also:standard English lyrics. It is on the strength of these that her reputation must See also:rest.
Mrs Hemans's Poetical Works were collected in 1832 ; her Memorials &c., by H. F. Chorley (1836).
End of Article: HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA (1793-1835)
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