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.
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Laurence Hope
In addition to adaptations of her poetry for music, two films adapted Hope's work: Less than the Dust (1916, with Mary Pickford
and David Powell
) and The Indian Love Lyrics (1923). Less than the...
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
A younger friend, Mary Agnes Hamilton
, used to dine with MBL
during the interwar years: early because Lowndes liked to begin writing as early as 5 a.m.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
296
Hamilton reported that her friend was...
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
191
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.
100
Chosen by Royde-Smith as a...
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
Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
At the Ministry of InformationPB
worked with politician and writer Mary Agnes Hamilton
, who admired Bentley's superb warmth and strength of feeling, but felt them to be a drawback for this kind of...
Friends, Associates
E. M. Delafield
EMD
had many literary friends, some of whom were associated with Time and Tide magazine, including Lady Rhondda, Winifred Holtby
, L. A. G. Strong
, A. B. Cox
, Mary Agnes Hamilton
, and...
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...
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...