A scrawled message on the door of a boarded-up Georgian building is the only marker of its key place in literary history.
People passing 118 Duke Street in Liverpool city centre may have spotted the words FELICIA HEMANS POET b HERE 1793, next to graffiti tags and a word alluding to false claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
It's not the most elaborate or fitting memorial to one of our city's most renowned poets but it's a memorial all the same. Felicia Hemans, born in the property, was responsible for some of the best-known lines in English poetry, and was admired by some of the biggest names in the Late Romantic era.
