Coming of age during the Napoleonic wars, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans was regarded as a sort of prodigy, though her first published volume, Poems, by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1808), did not meet with critical approval. She eventually became well-known for her patriotic, religious, sentimental, and historical poetry, song lyrics, and translations, eventually attaining popularity with the reading public as well as critical acclaim. Her work included themes of home, homesickness, and exile, connecting them to wartime sacrifice and suffering and to claims for nationhood through relations between land, gender, and class. Writing and publishing prolifically to support her large family, she eventually produced, in addition to Poems, the following substantial list of publications: England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism, by Felicia Dorothea Browne (1808); The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems (1812); The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816); Modern Greece. A Poem (1817); Translations from Camoens, and other Poets, with Original Poetry (1818); Tales, and Historic Scenes in Verse (1819); Wallace's Invocation to Bruce. A Poem (1819); The Sceptic: A Poem (1820); Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King (1820); Dartmoor, A Poem: Which Obtained the Prize of Fifty Guineas proposed by The Royal Society of Literature (1821); A Selection of Welsh Melodies (with music arranged by John Parry, 1821); The Siege of Valencia; A Dramatic Poem. The Last Constantine: with Other Poems (1823); The Vespers of Palermo; A tragedy, in five acts (1823); The Forest Sanctuary; and Other Poems (1825); Hymns on the Works of Nature. For the Use of Children (1827); Records of Woman: with Other Poems (1828); A Set of Original Songs (with music composed by J. Z. Herrmann and H. F. Chorley, 1830); A Collection of Peninsular Melodies, 2 volumes, (with music arranged by G. L. Hodges, 1830); Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830); Scenes and Hymns of Life, with other religious poems (1834); National Lyrics, and Songs for Music (1835); and the posthumous Poetical Remains of the late Mrs. Hemans, edited by D. M. Moir (1836). and