Harriet Browne (composer)

{{Short description|British music composer (1790–1858)}}

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Harriet Mary Browne Owen (1798–1858) was an English writer and composer, the sister of poet Felicia Hemans.{{cite web |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Norton/Grove+Dictionary+of+Women+Composers.-a019129560|title=The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|accessdate=2 February 2011}} Browne was a granddaughter of the Venetian consul in Liverpool, and the family moved from there to Denbighshire in North Wales for her father to pursue his business. She grew up near Abergele and St. Asaph in Flintshire, and married a man named Owen. She was confused within her own lifetime with another composer, making attribution of her works difficult.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA89 |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate=2 February 2011|isbn=9780393034875}} Besides composing, she wrote a The works of Mrs. Hemans, with a memoir by her sister.{{cite book |title=The works of Mrs. Hemans, with a memoir by her sister|url=https://archive.org/details/worksmrshemansw07hemagoog|first1=Felicia Dorothea Browne|last1=Hemans|first2=Harriet Mary Browne|last2=Owen|year=1840|publisher=Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard }} She also used the pseudonym Mrs. Hughes.{{cite book |title=The Modern language review: Volume 54|first1=John George|last1=Robertson|first2=Charles Jasper|last2=Sisson|publisher=Modern Humanities Research Association|year=1959}}