Hemans, Felicia
(female)
09/25/1793 - 05/16/1835
English
Published over 350 poems in magazines and verse annuals; wrote long poems such as The Forest Sanctuary (1825); corresponded with leading women writers; also wrote translations and commentaries on foreign literature for Edinburgh Magazine, New Monthly Magazine; most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)