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Felicia Dorothea Hemans, born on September 25, 1793, in Liverpool, was an English poet from the Romantic era.

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Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), British poet, was born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, a granddaughter of the Venetianconsul in that city.

Her father's business soon brought the family to Denbighshire[?] in North Wales, where she spent her youth. They made their home near St. Asaph[?], and it is clear that she came to regard herself as Welsh by adoption, later referring to Wales as "Land of my childhood, my home and my dead".

Her first poems, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, were published in Liverpool in 1808, when she was only fifteen, arousing the interest of no less a person than Shelley, who briefly corresponded with her.

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    • She quickly followed them up with "The domestic affections", published in 1812, the year of her marriage to Captain Alfred Hemans, an Irish army officer some years older than herself. The marriage took her away from Wales, to Daventry in Northamptonshire.

    During their first six years of marriage, Felicia gave birth to five sons, and t