Female romantic poets
The boy stood on the burning deck
The last song of sappho...
Biography:
Felicia's father was George Browne, a Liverpool merchant. Her mother, Felicity Wagner, was the daughter of the Austrian and Tuscan consul to Liverpool. Felicia Browne was born on September 25, , in Liverpool.
Hemans meaningShe was the fifth of seven children. When her father's business failed about , the family moved first to Gwrych, an isolated Welsh seaside house; then, in , to St. Asaph, Wales.
Felicia was a clever child who began to read at an early age and did so voraciously from the well-stocked family library.
She read novels and poetry, learned several languages, and studied music, primarily under the direction of her mother. According to her sister, Felicia "could repeat pages of poetry from her favourite authors, after having read them but once over." When she was eleven or twelve she spent two successive winters in London, where she was awed by the paintings and sculptures.
Her first book of Poems was published in It was remarkable work to come from a fourteen-year-old
