The Works of Mrs. Hemans

The Works of Mrs. Hemans

Hemans, Felicia. ed. Harriet Owen

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840

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1840

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 27 October 1840. "I am reading Harris's Great Teacher, and am "innig bewegt" as a German would say by its stirring eloquence which leaves you no time or strength for a cold estimate of the writer's strict merits. I wish I could read some extracts to you. Isaac Taylor's work is not yet complete. When it is so, I hope to reperuse it and then will either write or talk to you of it. Since I wrote to you I have had Aimé Martin's work, L'Education des Mères lent to me, and I have found it to be the real Greece whence Woman's Mission has only imported to us a few marbles -- but! Martin is a soi-distant ‘rational’ Christian, if I mistake him not. I will send you an epitaph which he mentions and which I fancy is not translated into Woman's Mission. It is on a tomb in Paris, that of a mother: "Dors en paix O ma mère, ton fils t'obéira toujours." I am reading eclectically Mrs. Hemans's poems, and venture to recommend to your perusal if unknown to you, one of her longest poems, "The Forest Sanctuary." I can give it my pet adjective, exquisite! I meant to write more; perhaps it is happy for you that I am constrained to close my extra-ordinarily illegible letter. I am going out early tomorrow morning. 'Tis now eight in the evening and my Daddy has laid by his papers." GEL 1: 72-3

Hemans, Felicia. ed. Harriet Owen, The Works of Mrs. Hemans, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57269

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