Charles Hamilton

Standard Name: Hamilton, Charles,, d. 1792

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hamilton
EH 's brother, another Charles Hamilton , was an important figure in her life; her biographer Benger called him her oracle.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818.
1: 47
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hamilton
EH 's brother went to India as an army officer.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
127
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hamilton
EH 's brother died of tuberculosis, shortly before he was due to return to India after his extended home leave.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7 - 50.
9
Publishing Elizabeth Hamilton
EH dated her dedication to Warren Hastings (as her brother 's friend and patron) of Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
132
Residence Elizabeth Hamilton
EH came south to London on a visit to her brother (who had extended leave from India to enable him to translate into English the Islamic code of laws).
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818.
1: 110
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Textual Features Elizabeth Hamilton
The first of Hamilton's major topics is concentrated in her Preliminary Dissertation and in the first of her two volumes. The Dissertation derives its sociological-anthropological material (carefully footnoted) from information supplied by her brother ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
EH wrote letters to her brother in India.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7 - 50.
8-9, 49

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