Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
        
        
          
        
        
          
        
       
      
      
      
      
     
     
    
    
    
     “I should be much obliged if you would have my name at
                                    full length prefixed to the titles of my pieces in the contents of the
                                        ‘New Monthly.’ Some
                                    one, for whose perpetrations I do not at all wish to answer, ![]()
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 having adopted the initials I have been in the habit of
                                    using, I mean to leave off that signature in future. 
     “Believe me, my dear Sir, very truly
                                        yours, 
    
     “Wavertree, March 29th.” 
    
    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.