About: Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (1828)

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Felicia Hemans is one of the “lost” female authors of the Romantic period who, along with several of her contemporaries, was a popular and influential poet of her day, routinely outselling her more enduringly famous male counterparts. Yet, despite her initial impact, she faded into relative obscurity after the end of the Victorian age, only to be rediscovered as new historicist and feminist scholars sought out marginalized female voices in the later part of the 20th Century. She has since received a good deal of critical attention thanks to the political and cultural awareness of her work, providing as it does a relatively rare woman’s perspective on many of the key concerns of her age (Wolfson xiv).

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rdfs:comment	Felicia Hemans is one of the “lost” female authors of the Romantic period who, along with several of her contemporaries, was a popular and influential poet of her day, routinely outselling her more enduringly famous male counterparts. Yet, despite her initial impact, she faded into relative obscurity after the end of the Victorian age, only to be rediscovered as new historicist and feminist scholars sought out marginalized female voices in the later part of the 20th Century. She has since received a good deal of critical attention thanks to the political and cultural awareness of her work, providing as it does a relatively rare woman’s perspective on many of the key concerns of her age (Wolfson xiv).
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abstract	Felicia Hemans is one of the “lost” female authors of the Romantic period who, along with several of her contemporaries, was a popular and influential poet of her day, routinely outselling her more enduringly famous male counterparts. Yet, despite her initial impact, she faded into relative obscurity after the end of the Victorian age, only to be rediscovered as new historicist and feminist scholars sought out marginalized female voices in the later part of the 20th Century. She has since received a good deal of critical attention thanks to the political and cultural awareness of her work, providing as it does a relatively rare woman’s perspective on many of the key concerns of her age (Wolfson xiv). Hemans, née Brown, was born in Liverpool in 1793 but lived most of her life in North Wales, an area for which she had an enduring love. Educated by her mother from an early age, Hemans quickly proved to have a sharp mind and a gift for writing. She learned four languages, devoured the novels, romances, plays, and poetry of her family’s impressive library, and in 1808, by the time she was fourteen, found her way into print. In 1811 she married Captain Alfred Hemans, and the couple had five sons. Yet the happiness of that match was not to last, and her husband left for Italy, never to return, before the birth of their last son. The Captain claimed his departure was due to his health, but the nature of their separation has remained a subject of conjecture for scholars. Despite this blow, Hemans’ life was centered around the domestic sphere, and she raised her sons with the help of her family, especially her mother, while still writing prolifically (“Felicia”). Her most popular volume of poetry was Records of Woman, with Other Poems, which was published in 1828 and largely focused on the stories of a wide range of female protagonists drawn from history and contemporary life. This work exemplifies the subgenre that Hemans pioneered and which she termed, fittingly enough, “Records of Women.” Such poetry viewed history and contemporary life through the lens of the women experiencing them.

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