SECTION 2 – WOMEN POETS FROM ENGLAND
Title page, portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), and poem,
“Victoria’s Tears,” A Gallery of Distinguished English and American Female Poets. With an Introduction by Henry Coppée … Richly Illustrated with a Hundred Steel Engravings … Mostly from Original Designs by Eminent Artists. Compiled by Henry Coppée. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1860. |
Prolific writer Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1793-1835) spent much of her early life in an isolated Welsh seaside residence. She learned several languages, studied music, and read a wide array of novels and books of poetry. Later, separated from her husband, with five small sons to support, Hemans remained in Wales and continued to write. Her poetry became quite popular, in part because the works reflected idealized familial and social concerns of the time. One of her best-loved poems is “The Homes of England.”
Portrait of Felicia Hemans, illustration, and section of “The Homes of England,” A Gallery of Distinguished English and American Female Poets... .
The Letters of Queen Victoria, a Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861: Published by Authority of His Majesty the King, Image of Queen Victoria, 1855., Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907
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