biography
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Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
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née Browne
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pronunciation:
[hemanz]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1793–1835)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. She produced a large number of books of verse of all kinds - love lyrics, classical, mythological, sentimental - including The Siege of Valencia (1823) and Records of Women (1828). She is perhaps best remembered for the poem ‘Casabianca’, better known from its first line, ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’. |
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