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Felicia Browne
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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'.