Mary Agnes Hamilton

08 July 1882 - 10 February 1966

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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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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...
Friends, Associates	Lady Margaret Sackville	LMS became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton , one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell . Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 78 She was an occasional visitor at the Morrells'...
Friends, Associates	Evelyn Sharp	Their many shared friends included Vera Brittain , Winifred Holtby , and the writer and politician Mary Agnes Hamilton . In 1940 Hamilton took Harry Gill , president of the Railway Clerks' Association and a...
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
death	Ray Strachey	The month before this she had quite calmly told Mary Agnes Hamilton that she had to have an operation that might prove a very big one. She then expected at most to be off work...
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...
Travel	Ray Strachey	RS travelled round Greece by car with her friend Mary Agnes Hamilton . Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 219
Friends, Associates	Ray Strachey	RS got to know Mary Agnes Hamilton in 1930, through giving evidence to the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, on which Hamilton served. Casual contact over shared suffrage work had not made them friends...
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	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. 315 Her reputation has been first and foremost the political one which she shared with Sidney: as...

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