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.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Tytler
The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ellen Weeton
Though she scorned circulating libraries, her recorded comments on books include praise for Anna Maria Porter 's The Lake of Killarney, Mary Ann Hanway 's Ellinor, and Elizabeth Hamilton 's The Cottagers of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helena Wells
The body of her work takes up her favourite topic: the difficulties of women as wage-earners—difficulties which impede the progress of my own sex to independence—and what should be done to solve them...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG 's comment include Susan Ferrier , Charlotte Smith (whose poems AG felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME 's early letters to her friend Fanny Robinson are earnest and priggish. By the 1790s she was sending the Ruxtons letters which have literary merit in themselves (mixing amusing anecdote and expressions of affection)...
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 Production Maria Edgeworth
The Longman 's project reported by Catherine Hutton on 13 June this year, for a women's periodical bearing the names of ME , BarbauldInchbald , and Hamilton , seems not to have materialised. It...
Textual Production Jane Austen
JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
285
She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
She altered the magazine's policy, reviewing Mary Brunton 's Self-Control, and then Maria Edgeworth 's Tales, I forget which series,
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 203
although until then it had not been customary in that work...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB 's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB paid tribute to a close friend in Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
18: 542
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
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, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87.
258
The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
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...

Timeline

1785: Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton)...

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1785

Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton ) published with Joseph JohnsonEssays Historical and Moral, which expresses feminist and reforming sentiments.

1805: George Nicholson compiled and published at...

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1805

George Nicholson compiled and published at Poughnill near Ludlow in ShropshireThe Advocate and Friend of Woman, an anthology of excerpts.

1816: Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous...

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1816

Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous satirical novelHeadlong Hall.

1901: The publication of George Douglas Brown's...

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1901

The publication of George Douglas Brown 's novel The House with the Green Shutters marked the first attack on the Scottish school of fiction that was afterwards known as Kailyard.

Texts

Hamilton, Elizabeth. Essays on the Mind. Manners and Miller, 1813.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Exercises in Religious Knowledge. 1809.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Hints to the Patrons of Schools. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. Editors Perkins, Pamela and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Letters on Education. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1801.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Letters to the Daughter of a Nobleman. T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. Editor Grogan, Claire, 2000.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus. G. and J. Robinson, 1804.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. The Cottagers of Glenburnie. Manners and Miller, and S. Cheyne, 1808.