Posted by John Wilson on January 05, 2007 at 10:53:31 from 202.154.137.49 user hugo.
In Reply to: CASABIANCA posted by Ed Kiser on January 05, 2007 at 00:34:12:
Mrs Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) was apparently the most widely read and published woman poet of the 19th century, as I posted in 2002 (repeat follows):
Popular for her liberalism and piety, she wrote to support her five sons after her Army Captain husband left her. Author of “Casabianca”, and “The Stately Homes of England” (not as sung by Noël Coward).
Byron, writing to Murray in 1820, referred to “your feminine He-man” and said “no more modern poesy - I pray - neither Mrs Hewoman’s - nor any female or male Tadpole of Poet Turdsworth’s - nor any of his ragamuffins”.
Her “Casabianca” first appeared in the second edition of her “The Forest Sanctuary” in 1829 (the Battle of the Nile was in 1798).