Eliza Mary Hamilton

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Eliza Mary Hamilton , an Anglo-Irish writer, published a single collection of poetry. She also contributed several sonnets and poems to the Irish periodicals of the pre- and early Victorian period.

Milestones

4 April 1807

Poet EMH was born in Dublin, the middle one in a gifted family of five children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

June 1838

EMH published Poems in one volume under her own name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
562 (1838): 552

14 May 1851

EMH died in Dublin, having left the Observatory after her brother's marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
31

Biography

Birth and Family

4 April 1807

Poet EMH was born in Dublin, the middle one in a gifted family of five children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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