Mary Agnes Hamilton

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Standard Name: Hamilton, Mary Agnes
Birth Name: Mary Agnes Adamson
Nickname: Molly
Married Name: Mary Agnes Hamilton
Pseudonym: Iconoclast
MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional treatments of topics that concerned her in public life: political charisma, pacifism, women's access to political activity. Her non-fiction includes books of history and geography, political analyses of the Labour Party the Trade Unions, and life-writing, most notably two successive volumes of autobiography, and the biographies of politicians including women who deserve to be better known for their activism. She calls her book about Newnham College a biography as well.

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Travel Ray Strachey
RS travelled round Greece by car with her friend Mary Agnes Hamilton .
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Mary Agnes Hamilton felt that PB 's superb strength of feeling gave fire and force to her writing.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Up-Hill All the Way. Cape.
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Bentley herself wrote in "O Dreams, O Destinations" that her ambition had been to write a...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote that RM explained her motives for writing as a love of playing with words: to find new ones, right ones, fresh uses for old ones: to make them dance: to make...
Textual Features Ray Strachey
In this volume contributors Eleanor F. Rathbone , MP (a very early woman member of the House of Commons), Mary Agnes Hamilton , Erna Reiss , Alison Neilans , and RS herself assess the legal...
Residence Naomi Royde-Smith
After the First World War she lived in a flat at the top of a large house at 44 Prince's Gardens in Kensington (an address later remembered by Mary Agnes Hamilton as in nearby Exhibition...
Reception Vernon Lee
Interest in her work was waning by 1937 when some of her letters were first privately printed (though Mary Agnes Hamilton in Remembering My Good Friends, 1944, noted her extreme subtlety and acuteness of...
Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber.
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Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Her list of...
Occupation Edith J. Simcox
With her friend Mary Hamilton , EJS operated a successful shirt and collar manufacturing co-operative business at 68 Dean Street in Soho.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
331
Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1.
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McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
27, 29
names Beatrice Webb
When in 1929 her husand accepted a title for political reasons, BW let it be known that she would not use the title which this would confer on her, nor in any other respect behave...
Literary responses Naomi Royde-Smith
Mary Agnes Hamilton later called the Problems page unique both in the ingenuity and standard of its competitions and in the calibre of the persons who felt it worth while to go in for them...
Literary responses Rose Allatini
Meanwhile the Times Literary Supplement saw the novel as well-written—evidently the work of a woman. The reviewer judged that as a frank and sympathetic study of certain types of mind and character, it is of...
Literary responses Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
Literary responses Beatrice Webb
Mary Agnes Hamilton later commented on the uncharacteristic lyricism of this book. Although it was hard to read, it was, she said, hungrily read. BW herself was delighted to meet a taxi driver who...
Literary responses Beatrice Webb
H. G. Wells caricatured her (along with Sidney, of course) in The New Machiavelli as Altiora Bailey.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Her reputation has been first and foremost the political one which she shared with Sidney: as...

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14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

26 December 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson (who had already...

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26 December 1918

US President Woodrow Wilson (who had already been in Paris in connection with the peace conference which did not officially convene until 18 January following) was received in London with intense enthusiasm.

Summer 1919: John Maynard Keynes published The Economic...

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Summer 1919

John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...

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30 May 1929

Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....

19 September 1931: The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began,...

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19 September 1931

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began, signalling a shift of the balance of power from the Emperor to the escalating military machine.

30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...

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30 July 1932

The Independent Labour Party , increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party 's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.

14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...

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14 November 1935

A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.

29 September 1938: The Munich Pact (associated with the name...

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29 September 1938

The Munich Pact (associated with the name of Neville Chamberlain , who travelled to Munich to sign it for Britain) granted the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler 's Germany.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...

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August 1940

A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi

Texts

Hamilton, Mary Agnes. “Arthur Henderson”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1818, p. 1016.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Arthur Henderson. W. Heinemann, 1938.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Dead Yesterday. Duckworth, 1916.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Follow My Leader. J. Cape, 1922.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Folly’s Handbook. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Full Circle. Collins, 1919.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. In America To-Day. H. Hamilton, 1932.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. John Stuart Mill. H. Hamilton, 1933.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. La Démocratie anglaise en guerre. Ministry of Information, 1945.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Less than the Dust. Heinemann, 1912.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Life Sentence. H. Hamilton, 1935.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Margaret Bondfield. L. Parsons, 1924.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Mary Macarthur. L. Parsons, 1925.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Murder in the House of Commons. H. Hamilton, 1931.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Sampson Low, Marston, 1933.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Special Providence. George Allen and Unwin, 1930.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. “Testament of Friendship”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2951, p. 532.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes, editor. The Boat Train: By Fifteen Travellers. G. Allen and Unwin, 1934.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. The Last Fortnight. W. Collins Sons, 1920.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald. Leonard Parsons, 1923.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Thomas Carlyle. L. Parsons, 1926.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Up-Hill All the Way. Cape, 1953.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Women at Work. G. Routledge, 1941.