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Felicia Hemans

 

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Friedrich von Schiller : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

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

  

Johann Gottfried von Herder : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

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

  

Johan Wolfgang Goethe : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

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

  

Karl Theodor Korner : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

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

  

John Chetwode Eustace : A Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1)

'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[end italics], 4 vols. (London, 1817) [...] [John Chetwode Eustace] relates the legends of the Unterberg (1.76-77), some of which F[elicia]H[emans] copied into her commonplace book, 20-22 (Houghton Library MS Eng 767).'

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

  

Johann Gottfried von Herder : Volkslieder

Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection "Volkslieder".

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

  

Catherine Maria Sedgwick : Hope Leslie

In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie" [...] a novel published in 1827 about the Pequod War in 17th-c. New England.'

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

  

unknown : Memoir of the Queen of Prussia

'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Unknown

  

Mary Tighe : early poems

'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records of Immature Genius"'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Manuscript: Unknown

  

 : advertisements for books on the arts

Felicia Hemans to John Murray, 26 February 1817, having just sent to him the MS of "Modern Greece": 'Had I been aware of the very limited taste for the Arts which you inform me is displayed by the Public, I should certainly have applied myself to some other subject; but having seen so many works advertised on Sculpture, painting, &c. I was naturally led to imagine the contrary'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Advertisement

  

Dr Alexander Brunton : Memoir of Mary Brunton

Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs Brunton, and her beautiful though unfinished tale of "Emmeline."'

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

  

Mary Brunton : Emmeline: With Some Other Pieces

Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs Brunton, and her beautiful though unfinished tale of "Emmeline."'

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

  

Caroline Bowles : Solitary Hours

Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived great pleasure. The little work called "Solitary hours" interested me particularly: some of the pieces it contains had before struck me in your Magazine'.

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

  

Caroline Bowles : poetical/prose "pieces"

Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived great pleasure. The little work called "Solitary hours" interested me particularly: some of the pieces it contains had before struck me in your Magazine'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Johann Heinrich Voss : poem ("nuptial benediction")

Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, a beautiful nuptial benediction pronounced by a Father over his child [...] which some parts of your letter [about his daughter's forthcoming marriage] recalled to my mind. I have copied Madame de Stael's translation of it, and take the liberty of including it for you.'

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

  

Germaine de Stael : De L'Allemagne

Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, a beautiful nuptial benediction pronounced by a Father over his child [...] which some parts of your letter [about his daughter's forthcoming marriage] recalled to my mind. I have copied Madame de Stael's translation of it, and take the liberty of including it for you.'

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

  

 : Reports on Mary Russell Mitford's play, Rienzi

Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of "Rienzi," of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi (excerpts)

Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of "Rienzi," of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron

Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'which dismayed her.'

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

  

John Gibson Lockhart : Review of Thomas Moore's Life of Byron

Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have been deeply and sorrowfully impressed.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the liberty I am taking. But really, after having accompanied you, as I have done again and again, in "violeting," and seeking for wood-sorrel ? after having been with you to call upon Mrs. Allen in "the dell", and becoming thoroughly acquainted with May and Lizzie, I cannot but hope that you will kindly pardon my obtrusion, and that my name may be sufficiently known to you to plead my case. There are writers whose works we cannot read without feeling as if we really had looked with them upon the scenes they bring before us, and as if such communion had almost given us a claim to something more than the mere intercourse between authors and "gentle readers". Will you allow me to say that your writings have this effect up me, and that you have taught me, in making me know and love your "Village" so well, to wish for further knowledge also of her who has so vividly impressed its dingles and copses upon my imagination, and peopled them so cheerily with healthful and happy beings?'

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

 

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