Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Hemans ], by Her Sister.
by Harriet Hughes
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible; VG-
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, was very popular in her day, her poems read and respected alongside her contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, etc. She had five children in six years, was abandoned by her husband, spent the rest of her life writing in order to survive and was dead by the age of forty-one. You can read more about her at the Chawton House Library website.
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17670
- Title
- Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Hemans ], by Her Sister.
- Author
- Harriet Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1840
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WOMEN WRITERS, WOMEN POETS, ROMANTIC PERIOD, POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Poetry; Biography / Autobiography; Women Writers;
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