Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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...
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.
1: 149n1
Mary Agnes Hamilton
wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
137
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.
xi
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
27, 29
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 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.
114
Bentley herself wrote in "O Dreams, O Destinations" that her ambition had been to write a...
Travel
Ray Strachey
RS
travelled round Greece by car with her friend Mary Agnes Hamilton
.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
