Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
“If the little poems which I now do myself the
pleasure of sending to you are acceptable, I should wish them to be inserted
without my name. I have forgotten the name of the article in the ‘New Monthly,’ from which the
description of the funeral genius was taken, perhaps you will have the kindness
to supply it in the motto prefixed to the lines. With much esteem,
“Sir, your faithful servant,
“Brownwylpha, St. Asaph, April 12th.”
Felicia Dorothea Hemans [née Browne] (1793-1835)
English poet; author of
Tales, and Historic Scenes (1819),
Records of Woman (1828), and other volumes. She was much in demand
as a contributor to the literary annuals.
New Monthly Magazine. (1814-1884). Founded in reaction to the radically-inclined
Monthly Magazine,
the
New Monthly was managed under the proprietorship of Henry
Colburn from 1814 to 1845. It was edited by Thomas Campbell and Cyrus Redding from
1821-1830.