Felicia Dorothea nee Browne Hemans (1793-1835) was an English poet. She was born in Liverpool, but came to regard herself as Welsh by adoption, later referring to Wales as "Land of my childhood, my home and my dead". Her first poems, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, were published in Liverpool in 1808, when she was only fourteen. She quickly followed these with England and Spain (1808) and The Domestic Affections (1812), published the year of her marriage to Captain Alfred Hemans, an Irish army officer. During their first six years of marriage Felicia gave birth to five sons, and then the couple separated. Marriage had not, however, prevented her from continuing her literary career, with several volumes of poetry being published, beginning with The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (1816), Modern Greece (1817) and Tales and Historic Scenes (1819). Her major collections, including The Forest Sanctuary (1825), Records of Woman (1828) and Songs of the Affections (1830) were...