Elizabeth Hamilton

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Standard Name: Hamilton, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Hamilton
Nickname: Eliza Hamilton
In her own day EH was best known and loved for My Ain Fireside (a song expressive of national Scottish feeling and the glorification of the domestic) and for Cottagers of Glenburnie, 1808, a novel of domestic improvement. In later generations her satire on the Jacobins has got her type-cast as an unmitigated conservative. In fact her writings in many genres (poems, novels, essays, biography, and writings on education, religion, and philosophy) combine a scholarly and an ironic bent, and her conservatism includes a strong streak of feminism. Her novels make less use than most of the marriage plot, and she presents single women as strong and admirable.
Portrait of Elizabeth Hamilton by Sir Henry Raeburn. The dark but vivid painting suits her olive skin and curly, dark (unpowdered) hair. She is wearing red velvet with a matching kerchief on her head, and holding some small object in her hands.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Catherine Hutton
CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton .
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers.
159
Occupation Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI , or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman 's project reported by Catherine Hutton on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
Textual Features May Laffan
In this novel ML returns to the controversy of Irish Home Rule so thoroughly treated in Hogan, M.P., putting criticisms of it into the mouths of middle-class, Protestant Irish residents. The attorney Mr Perry...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
Her mother then fell ill; Caroline was persuaded that she was to blame and in early September, her parents and husband bore her off to Bessborough House in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
126
Her exchange of...
Textual Features Mary Leadbeater
Despite her didactic intention, and although she provides useful recipies and information on herbal medicine, ML shows none of the condescension of analogous works like Elizabeth Hamilton 's Cottagers of Glenburnie. The dialogues are...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
MBCL 's son, Richard, who eventually succeeded his father as second Earl Lucan , was born on 4 December 1764. He was a cultured art-collector, and married a divorcee with whom he had had an...
Textual Features Elizabeth Meeke
The orphan hero, Theodore, is brought up among a collection of intellectual eccentrics, reminiscent of such satirical novels as those of Elizabeth Hamilton .
Education Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney , Maria Edgeworth , Elizabeth Hamilton ,...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO issued her next historical biography, Elizabeth of Bohemia, about the Scottish-born Electress Palatine who was a great patron and a force in European politics during the seventeenth century.
Elizabeth Hamilton had planned...
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP 's Aretas. A Novel, published this year, appears not to have survived.
Without having seen a copy of this work, which is unlisted in OCLC, it is reasonable to suppose that it...
Friends, Associates Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
She knew other distinguished writers from the previous generation too, and her friends both before and after her marriage included many in the world of literature. A couple of years after this she spent the...
Friends, Associates Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS judged Anna Seward to be greedy for flattery, especially from the opposite sex. In 1799 she met Hannah More , who was then at the height of her fame and to whom admittance was...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Smith
They met and spent time with Elizabeth Hamilton and her sister, Katherine Blake , when these two visited the Lakes in May 1802.
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
157
Mrs Smith felt that the Quaker poet Thomas Wilkinson was one...
Textual Features Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...

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