HEMANS, Felicia Dorothea Browne, English poet: b. Liverpool, 25 Sept. 1793; d. near Dublin, Ireland, 16 May 1835. She dis played the bent of her genius when .a mere child, and wrote some tolerable poetry in her ninth year. She first appeared as an author, in '1808, in a volume entitled 'Early Blossoms,' but it was subjected to harsh criticism, which she took very seriously to heart. A second volume, published in 1812, 'The Domestic Af fections,' was much more successful. The same year she married Captain Hemans, from whom she was separated in 1818. She then resumed her literary pursuits, made herself acquainted with Latin and modern languages and wrote much in the periodicals of the time. At the suggestion of Reginald Heber, afterward bishop of Calcutta, she wrote a tragedy entitled The Vespers of Palermo,' which, owing partly to Sir Walter Scott, who wrote an epilogue for it, was favorably received at the Edinburgh theatre, though it had previously, in 1823, proved unsuccessful at Covent Garden. Be
fore this time she had added greatly to her popularity by her poems entitled The Restora tion of the Works of Art to Italy' ; The Skep tic' ;
Greece' ; and