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Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Hemans ], by Her Sister. by Harriet Hughes - 1840

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Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Hemans ], by Her Sister. by Harriet Hughes - 1840

Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Hemans ], by Her Sister.

by Harriet Hughes

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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, was very popular in her day, her poems read and respected alongside her contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, etc. She had five children in six years, was abandoned by her husband, spent the rest of her life writing in order to survive and was dead by the age of forty-one. You can read more about her at the Chawton House Library website.

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Collectible; VG-
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Lea and Blanchard
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1840
  • Keywords WOMEN WRITERS, WOMEN POETS, ROMANTIC PERIOD, POETRY

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Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs Hemans

Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs Hemans

by [Owen, Harriet Mary Browne ]; [Hughes, Harriet]

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Used - G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Some scuffing to leather. Staining to title page and frontis. Text clean wit
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London: William Blackwood and Sons. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Some scuffing to leather. Staining to title page and frontis. Text clean with a little browing. Previous owner inscriptions to feps. Aeg. 1841. Reprint. Leather hardback cover. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 352pp. .
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