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Felicia Browne

 

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 : newspapers

Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'You have, I know, perused the papers (as I have done,) with anxiety [...] The noble Spaniards! surely, surely, they will be crowned with success'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Newspaper

  

Stephanie Felicite de Crest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis : Le Siege de la Rochelle

Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'I have been reading a most delightful French romance, by Madame de Genlis, "Le Siege de la Rochelle".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Memoirs

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

Jane Porter : The Scottish Chiefs

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal [...] I have also [underlined]been guilty[end underlined] of reading a [underlined]Romance[end underlined] [...] It is "The Scottish Chiefs," by Miss Porter, & though I am by no means an Advocate for [underlined]Historical[end underlined] Novels as they bewilder our ideas, by confounding truth with fiction, yet this animated Authoress has painted her Hero [...] in such glowing colours, that you cannot avoid catching a spark of her own enthusiasm".

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : plays

Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare; and, by way of securing shade and freedom from interruption, used to climb an apple tree, and there study his plays'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

 

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