Selected Bibliographical Resources for Felicia Hemans
© Byeonghoon Hwang, 2002
Accessible websites for Felicia
Hemans
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/biography.html
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http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/droisen/434fdh.htm
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/engl382.htm
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/biography.html
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/passions/sweet/sweet.html
Other accessible Biographical
sources
Biographical
Particulars,
Mrs Hemans. New Monthly Magazine June 1835.
[Moir, D.M.] Obituary notice, Mrs. Hemans.
Blackwood's
Obituary.--Mrs. Hemans. GM July 1835.
Mrs. Hemans. Western Monthly Magazine
Sept 1835.
Lawrence, Mrs [Rose D'Aguilar]. The last
autumn at a favourite residence, with other poems: and Recollections of Mrs Hemans.
[Hughes (Owen), Harriett Browne.] "Memoir
of the life and writings of Mrs Hemans." In Vol 1 of The Works of
Mrs Hemans.
Howitt, W. Homes and haunts of the most
eminent British poets (vol 1).
L'Estrange, A.G. Letters of Mary Russell
Mitford. 3 vols 1st ser. 1870.
Hall, S.C. A book of memories of great
men and women of the age.
L'Estrange, A.G. The friendships of Mary
Russell Mitford as recorded in letters from her literary correspondents. 2 vols. 1882.
Whately, E.W. Personal and family glimpses
of remarkable people.
Shaw, G.T. The
Nicholson, F. "Correspondence between
Mrs Hemans and Matthew Nicholson." Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary and
Philosophical Society (no 9) 54 1910.
Williams, I.A. "Wordsworth, Mrs Hemans,
and Robert Perceval Graves."
Smith, G.N. The chronicles of a Puritan
family in
Smith, G.N. [A lady of quality under the Georges.]
S[cott], N.L. "Old letters." Alumni
Dublinensis. Dec 1831.
Centenary article on Mrs. Hemans.
Fellowes, E.H. and E. Pike, eds. The Tenbury
letters. 1942. [Priv ptd Golden Cockerel Press.]
Cunningham, W.R. "Mrs Hemans at Rydal Mount." TLS
Leslie, M.I. "Felicia Hemans: the basis
of a biography; by
Woods, R.L. Famous poems and the little-known stories behind
them.
Clarke, N. Ambitious heights: writing,
friendship, love--the Jewsbury sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Barker-Benfield, B. "Hogg-Shelley papers
of 1810-12." Bodleian Library Record
"Remarks on Mrs Hemans's poems."
"The living poets of
[Bancroft, G.] "Mrs Hemans's poems."
North American Review ns30 April 1827.
[Jeffrey, F.] "Felicia Hemans."
Edinburgh Review 50 1829; rptd in his Contributions to the
[Jewsbury, M.J.] "Felicia Hemans: Literary
sketches No. 1." Athenaeum
"Biographical particulars of celebrated
persons, lately deceased: Mrs Hemans." New Monthly Magazine June 1835.
Landon, L.E. "On the character of Mrs
Hemans's writings." New Monthly Magazine Aug 1835.
Norton, A. "The poetry of Mrs Hemans."
Christian Examiner 3rd ser 1 1836.
Thatcher, B.B. "The poetry of Mrs Hemans."
Religious Souvenir.
Hervey, T.K. "Life and writings of Mrs
Hemans: Art xii, The Vespers of Palermo, etc." Dublin Review
"Genius and character of Mrs. Hemans."
American Monthly Magazine March 1837.
[
Hall, S.C. "Felicia Hemans." in
his The book of gems: poets and artists of
"Mrs. Hemans and the picturesque school."
Fraser's Magazine Feb 1840.
[Tuckerman, H.T.] in Southern Literary
Messenger May-June 1841. Rptd as "Introduction" Poems of
Felicia Hemans. Ed R.W. Griswold.
Elwood, K.A. in her Memories of literary
ladies of
Griswold, R. in his Poets and poetry of
the nineteenth century.
Wilson, J. in his Noctes ambrosianae,
vo1 1.
Gilfillan, G. "Female Authors. No. I--Mrs.
Hemans." Tait's
Bethune, G.W. in his British female poets.
1848,
[Moir, D.M., and W.H. Smith.] Blackwood's
Sainte-Beuve, C.-A. in his Causeries de
lundi: Portraits de femmes et portraits litt raires. vols 3, 11, 15, 16.
Moir, D.M. in his Sketches of the poetical
lit of the past half-century.
Rowton, F. in his The female poets of
Williams, J. in her The literary women
of
Rossetti, W.M. "Introduction." Poetical
works of Mrs Felicia Hemans. Ed W.M. Rossetti,
"Felicia Dorothea Hemans: Celebrated
authoresses and their works no xiii." Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine Aug 1879.
Robinson, A.M.F. "Felicia Hemans."
The English poets: selections with critical introductions, vol 1. Ed
T.H. Ward.
Oliphant, M. in her The literary history
of
Robertson, E.S. "Mrs Hemans" [ch.
6]. in his English poetesses: a series of critical biographies.
Schipper, J. "Neuenglische metrik,"
vol 2. Englische metrik in historischer und systematischer enwickelung dargestelt.
Walford, L.B. Twelve English authoresses.
1892.
Smith, N. in her Noble womanhood. 1898.
[Ardo.] "Mrs. Hemans: a literary progenitress
of Rudyard Kipling." Acad and Lit
Miles, A.H. in his The poets and poetry
of the nineteenth century, vol 8.
Saintsbury, G. in his A history of nineteenth
century literature.
Symons, A. in his The romantic movement
in English poetry.
Werner, E. "Die verstechnik der Felicia
Hemans" [diss].
Ledderbogen, W.F.D. "Felicia Dorothea
Hemans' lyrik, eine stilkritik."
Ruprecht, W.K. "Felicia Hemans und die englischen beziehungen
sur deutschen literatur."
Liddell, M.F. "Ferdinand Freilingrath's
debt to English poets, I and II." Modern Language Review 1928.
Dum ril,
Courtney, J.E. in her The adventurous thirties:
a chapter in the women's movement. 1933,
Saintsbury, G. in his The nineteenth century.
Vol 12 of Cambridge History of English Literature.
Wilson, E. Felicia Hemans.
Saintsbury, G. in his A history of English
prosody, vol 3.
Kutrieh, M.G. "Felicia Hemans."
Popular British romantic women poets.
Kaplan, C. in her Salt and bitter and good:
three centuries of English and American women poets.
Reiman, D.H. Introduction. Poems,
Walker, C. in her The nightingale's burden:
women poets and American culture before 1900.
Hickok, K. in her Representations of women.
Trinder, P.W. Mrs Hemans. [
Ross, M.B. in his The contours of masculine
desire: romanticism and the rise of women's poetry.
Jones, N.R. "Felicia Hemans." In
Dictionary of literary biography 2nd ser, vol 92.
Wordsworth, J. Introduction. The records
of woman, by F.D. Hemans.
Leighton, A. in her Victorian women poets:
writing against the heart.
Anderson, J. Beyond Calliope: epics by
women poets of the romantic period.
Armstrong, I. In her Victorian poetry:
poetry, poetics and politics. 1993.
Curran, S. in "Women readers, women writers."
In his The Cambridge companion to British romanticism.
Mellor, A.K. in her Romanticism and gender.
[McGann, J. J.] "Literary history, romanticism,
and Felicia Hemans." MLQ 54 (June 1993). Revised in Re-visioning romanticism: British women writers,
1776-1837, ed C.S. Wilson and J. Haefner.
Morlier, M.M. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Felicia Hemans: The 'poetess problem'" Studies in Browning and His Circle 20 1993 (70-79).
Stephenson, G. "Poet construction: Mrs
Hemans, L.E.L., and the image of the nineteenth-century woman poet." in Reimagining women: representations of women
in culture, ed S. Neuman and G. Stephenson.
Sweet, N. The bowl of liberty: Felicia
Hemans and the romantic
Feldman, P.R. "Felicia Hemans and the
mythologizing of Blake's death." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 27 Winter 1993-94.
Lootens, T. "Hemans and home: Victorianism,
feminine 'internal enemies', and the domestication of national identity." PMLA 109 March 1994.
Sweet, N. "History, imperialism, and
the aesthetics of the beautiful: Hemans and the post-Napoleonic moment".
in At the limits of romanticism, ed M.A. Favret and N.J. Watson,
Tucker, H.F. "House arrest: the domestication
of English poetry in the 1820s." New Literary History 25 1994.
Wolfson, S. "'Domestic affections' and
'the spear of Minerva': Felicia Hemans and the dilemma of gender." in Re-visioning romanticism: British women writers,
1776-1837, ed C.S. Wilson and J. Haefner.
Zhou, X. "Bishop's 'Casabianca'".
Explicator 52 1994.
Albergotti, C.D. "Byron, Hemans, and
the reviewers, 1807-1835." Unpbd diss, Univ South
Cochran, P. "Fatal fluency, fruitless
dower." TLS
Berliner, D.G. "The female romantic imagination."
Unpub diss, Univ
Blain, V. "'Thou with earth's music answerest
to the sky': Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the myth of poetic sisterhood." Women's Writing
2 1995.
Harding, A.J. "Felicia Hemans and the
effacement of woman". in Romantic women writers: voices and countervoices, ed P.R. Feldman and T.M. Kelley,
Wolfson, S. "Gendering the soul in romanticism".
in Romantic women writers: voices and countervoices, ed P.R. Feldman and T.M. Kelley,
Edgar, C. "The negotiations of the romantic
popular poet: a comparison of the careers of Felicia Hemans and Lord Byron". Unpub diss, New York Univ 1996.
Linley, M. "Sappho's Conversions in Felicia
Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Christina Rossetti." Prism(s): Essays
in Romanticism 1996 (15-42).
McGann, J.A. In his The politics of sensibility.
Sweet, N. "'Hitherto closed to British
enterprise': trading and writing the Hispanic world circa 1815." European Romantic Review 8 ,1997.
Feldman, P.R. "The poet and the profits:
Felicia Hemans and the literary marketplace." Keats-Shelley Journal 46 1997.
Eubanks, K. "Minerva's veil: Hemans,
critics, and the construction of gender." European Romantic Review 8 1997. [341-59]
Kabitoglou, E.D. "The pen and the sword:
Felicia Hemans's records of man." in Romantic Masculinities, ed T. Pinkney, K. Hanley, F. Botting, Keele,
1997.
Saglia, D. "Epic or domestic?: Felicia
Hemans's heroic poetry and the myth of the Victorian poetess." Rivista di studi vitoriani 2 1997. [125-47]
Kennedy, D. "Teaching Hemans in the First-Year
Course." in Approaches to teaching British women poets of the romantic period, ed. S.C. Behrendt and H.K. Linkin, New York, 1997.
Kennedy, D. "Hemans, Wordsworth, and
the 'literary lady'." Victorian Poetry 35 1997. [267-85]
Sweet, N. "Hemans's 'The widow of Crescentius':
Beauty, sublimity, and the woman hero." in Approaches to teaching British women poets of the Romantic period,
ed S.C. Behrendt and H.K. Linkin,
McGann, J.J. "The failures of romanticism,"
in Romanticism, history, and the possibilities of genre, ed. T. Rajan and J.M. Wright,
Roberts, A. "Felicia Hemans, Records
of Woman." in A Companion to Romanticism. ed
Ruwe, D.R. "The canon-maker: Felicia
Hemans and Torquato Tasso's sister." in Comparative Romanticisms: power, gender, subjectivity. Ed L.H. Peer and D.L. Hoeveler.
Sweet, N. "Hemans, Heber, and 'Superstition
and revelation': experiment and orthodoxy at the scene of writing." Romantic Passions, ed E. Fay. "Romantic
Praxis, " Romantic Circles 1998. [http://www.otal.umd.edu/rc/praxis/index.html]
Sweet, N. "'Lorenzo's'
Taylor, B.D. "Felicia Hemans: the making
of a professional writer." Unpd diss, U Loughborough 1998.
Peel, E., and N. Sweet. "Corinne and
the woman as poet in
Feldman, P.R. "Endurance and forgetting:
what the evidence suggests." in Romanticism and women poets: opening the doors of reception. ed S.C. Behrendt and H.K. Linkin,
Wolfson, S. "Felicia Hemans and the revolving
doors or reception." in Romanticism and women poets: opening the doors of reception. ed S.C. Behrendt and H.K. Linkin,
McConnell, K. "Praise between peers:
Felicia Hemans in the Wordsworth household." in Relocating praise.
ed Alice den Otter,
Letters and manuscripts in Harvard Univ; Huntington
Lib; BL; Bodleian Lib; Liverpool Public Lib and Record Office; National Libs
of Scotland and Wales; Massachusetts Historical Assoc; Alexandra College,
Dublin; Boston Public Lib; Berg Collection, New York Public Lib; Historical
Soc of Pennsylvania; John Murray; McGill, Princeton, Edinburgh, Duke Univs.
Boyle, A. An index to the annuals.
Jackson, J.R. de J. Romantic poetry by
women.
Jones, L.B. The New Monthly Magazine, 1821
to 1830. Univ
Poetical works ('4th Amer edn'). 2
vols
Poetical works (expanded, '5th Amer
edn'). 2 vols
Poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok.
Poetical works of Mrs Felicia Hemans (with
critical preface; with memoir by D.M. Moir).
Works of Mrs Hemans. Ed (with memoir)
by her sister [H. Hughes]. 7 vols.
Complete works of Mrs Hemans. Ed her
sister [H. Hughes]. 2 vols.
Poems of Felicia Hemans (chronologically
arranged). Ed her sister [H. Hughes].
Poetical works of Mrs Felicia Hemans.
Ed, introd W.M. Rossetti.
Poetical works of Felicia Hemans (with
preface).
Poetical works of Mrs F. Hemans with memoir.
1876, 1881. Gall & Inglis edn.
Poetical works of Mrs F. Hemans.
Poetical works, rptd from the early editions.
Poetical works of Mrs Hemans.
Poetical works of Mrs Hemans (rptd
from early edns, with memoir, explanatory notes, etc.). [Ed anon; rev by Charles
Hemans. Omits Siege of
Poetical works of Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
Poetical works of Mrs Hemans (with
prefatory memoir, notes, etc).
Poems, etc, by Felicia Hemans. [Facs,
ed, introd D.H. Reiman. Vols 64-70, Romantic Context: Poetry. 128 vols.]
Felicia Hemans: selected poems, letters,
and reception materials. ed S. Wolfson.
The league of the
Poems ('3rd Amer edn').
Poetical works of Mrs Felicia Hemans ('fourth
Amer edn', expanded). 2 vols.
Poetical works of Mrs Felicia Hemans. 2 vols.
Short sketch of the life of Mrs Hemans; with
remarks on her poetry; and extracts.
Poetical remains of the late Mrs. Hemans (with
memoir by D.M. Moir).
Early blossoms of spring, with a life of the
authoress. 1840. Juvenile poems.
Sacred poems of Mrs Hemans; and the Hebrew
melodies of Lord Byron.
Songs; Scenes and hymns of life; and other
poems; from the last
Poems of Felicia Hemans (with an essay on
her genius by H.T. Tuckerman). Ed R. Griswold,
Select
poetical works)
Poems by Mrs Hemans. 1873, 1880, 1885
(with illustrations), 1894, 1896. Routledge edn.
Extracts from the lyrical poems of Mrs
Hemans, etc. 1875. Stewart's School Ser.
Favorite poems.
Poems...selected for use in schools.
[1887]. Dreams of heaven.
Selections from Mrs Hemans. 1911.
Felicia Hemans: selected poems. ed.
G. Kelly,
Poems.
The domestic affections, and other poems.
1812, 1843, 1844.
The restoration of the works of art
to
Modern
Tales, and historic scenes, in verse.
1819, 1823, 1824 [?]. Rptd and Enlarged as Tales and historic scenes; and
other poems.
Wallace's invocation to Bruce: a poem.
The sceptic: a poem. 1820, 1821
with Stanzas to the memory of the late King. Reviews: European Mag
Jan 1820, Literary Gazette 22 Jan 1820, Literary Chronicle 11
March 1820, Br Critic April 1820, Edinburgh Monthly Rev April
1820, Antijacobin Rev May 1820, Christian's Pocket Mag May &
June 1820, Br Rev June 1820, Quart Rev Oct 1820, Lonsdale
Mag Dec 1820, Ladies' Monthly Museum ns13 1821.
Stanzas to the memory of the late King.
1820, 1821 with 2nd edn of The skeptic. Review: Quart Rev Oct
1820,
A selection of Welsh melodies.
1822. Power edn, music arr John Parry.
The siege of
The vespers of
The vespers of
The forest sanctuary, and other poems.
1825;
Hymns on the works of nature for the
use of children. [Ed A.Norton.]
Records of woman, with other poems.
Songs of the affections, with other
poems.
National lyrics, and songs for music.
Scenes and hymns of life, with other
religious poems.
Blackwood's
Literary Gazette: 1822. The
Cid's departure into exile [later Songs of the Cid 1] (12 Oct),
A collection of poems, ed Joanna
Baillie. 1823: Belshazzar's feast.
New Monthly Magazine. 1823:
The farewell to the dead, Greek song: the bowl of liberty, Songs of the Cid
I (The Cid's death-bed, a ballad) (March); Greek song: the voice of Scio,
Songs of the Cid II and III, The voice of spring (April); The bird's release
at the grave, Greek song: the shade of Theseus, Song for a Swiss festival
on the anniversary of an ancient battle, The statue of a funeral genius (June);
The wild huntsman, Valkiur song (July); The treasures of the deep [Rptd in
Poetical Album 1828], The sword of the tomb; a northern legend (Aug); Ancient
song of a Greek exile [later Ancient Greek song of exile], Moorish bridal
song, The isle of founts: an Indian tradition (Sept); Our lady's well (Oct);
The release of Tasso (Nov); The lost Pleiad, The sleeper on Marathon (Dec).
1824: The hour of death (Jan), The child of the forests (March); Bring flowers
(April); The conqueror's sleep, The messenger bird (June); The vassal's lament
for the fallen tree (July); The cavern of the three Tells, Troubadour songs
(The warrior crossed, They rear'd no trophy) (Aug); Troubadour song: the captive
knight, And I too in Arcadia (Sept); The revelers (Oct); The bended bow, The
crusader's return (Dec). 1825: Coeur de Lion at the bier of his father, Thekla's
song: or the voice of a spirit (Jan); The Suliote mother (March); Greek funeral
chant, The parting song [rpted in Poetical Album 1830] (April); Records of
woman 1: Imelda, The stranger in Louisiana (May); The bard's prophecy, A voyager's
dream of land (July); Records of woman 2: Costanza, The Sicilian captive (Aug);
The hour of romance, The lady of the castle (Sept); Records of woman 3: The
bride of the Greek isle (Oct); Bernardo del Caprio, The landing of the Pilgrim
fathers in New England (Nov); The graves of a household, Records of woman
4: The Indian city (Dec). 1826: Records of woman 5: The Switzer's wife (Jan);
The effigies (Feb); The birds of passage, The vigil of arms (March); Records
of woman 6: The American forest-girl (April); Records of woman 7: Gertrude,
The sun
Literary Magnet. 1826: To the
author of The Excursion and the Lyrical Ballads (April). 1827: Angel visits,
Evening song of the Tyrolese peasants, The penitent's offering, The wings
of the dove.
Monthly Magazine or British Register.
1826: The traveller at the source of the
Athenaeum. 1833: Prologue, by
Mrs Hemans, to the tragedy of 'Fiesco' (16 Feb); Song (Look on me with thy
cloudless eyes) (16 Nov).
Also, Hemans published regularly in verse annuals,
for instance Amulet (1824, 1826, 1831-34), Bijou: Cameo (1828-29), Christmas
Box (1829), Forget-me-not (1829, 1834-35), Friendship's Offering (1827, 1829),
Juvenile Forget-me-not (1826-29, 1834-35), Juvenile Keepsake (1829), Juvenile
Souvenir (1829), Literary Souvenir (1825-30, 1833), Keepsake (1829), New Year's
Gift (1829-30), Pledge of Friendship (1827-28), Poetical Album (1828, 1830),
Remembrance (1830-31), and Winter's Wreath (1828-32). See Boyle.
Published
letters, journals, etc.
Translations,
commentary
Translations from Camoens and other
poets with original poetry.
Italian lit: No. II, The Alcestis of Alfieri.
"Patriotic effusions of the Italian poets."
"Passages translated from the 'Iphigenia'
of Goethe." New Monthly Mag May 1832.
"German studies No. I. Scenes and passages
from the 'Tasso' of Goethe." New Monthly Mag Jan 1834.
"On a lady who died at sea. Trn Camoens."
Athenaeum
Jewsbury, M.J. Lays of leisure hours.
1829.
Jewsbury, M.J. The three histories.
Norton, Mrs. E. "To Mrs. Hemans."
New Monthly Mag Dec 1833.
Landon, L.E. "Stanzas on the death of
Mrs. Hemans". New Monthly Mag July 1835.
Browning, E.B. "Stanzas addressed to
Miss Landon." New Monthly Mag Sept 1835. Rptd as "Stanzas on the
death of Mrs. Hemans written in reference to Miss Landon's poem on the same
subject," in The seraphim and other poems. 1838.
Wordsworth, W. "Extempore effusion upon
the death of James Hogg." 1837. [1835 Athenaeum version lacks stanza
on Hemans.]
Landon, L.E. "Felicia Hemans". Fisher's
Drawing-Room Scrap Book.
Thackeray, W.M. "Mrs Perkins's ball ['Miss
Bunion']." in his The Christmas books of Mr M.A.Titmarsh. 1846.
Landor, W.S. "The heroines of
Ritchie, Lady A.I. "Felicia felix."
in her Blackstick papers. 1908.
Coward, N. "The stately homes of