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Felicia Dorothea Hemans, born on September 25, 1793, in Liverpool, was an English poet from the Romantic era. She is the author of many collections, including The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (T. Cadwell and W. Davies, 1812), Hymns on the Works of Nature, for the Use of Children (Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1827), and Records of Woman: With Other Poems (Blackwood, 1828). She died on May 16, 1835.
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Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a celebrated English...
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely...
American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston.