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Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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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