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.
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Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart | |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Butler | Particularly worthy of mention is a jaunty, witty, perceptive Hymn to Diana, which addresses the goddess of chastity in the manner of a litany, with a string of petitions. Since Diana has decreed, says... |
Textual Features | May Laffan | In this novel ML
returns to the controversy of Irish Home Rule so thoroughly treated in Hogan, M.P., putting criticisms of it into the mouths of middle-class, Protestant Irish residents. The attorney Mr Perry... |
Textual Features | Medora Gordon Byron | The fictional spinster here finds Miss Byron's bachelor sympathetic but querulous, and decides to make clear by a parallel account that unmarried women are not like that. I declare, on the honour of a... |
Textual Features | Mary Leadbeater | Despite her didactic intention, and although she provides useful recipies and information on herbal medicine, ML
shows none of the condescension of analogous works like Elizabeth Hamilton
's Cottagers of Glenburnie. The dialogues are... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Meeke | The orphan hero, Theodore, is brought up among a collection of intellectual eccentrics, reminiscent of such satirical novels as those of Elizabeth Hamilton
. |
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 | 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. 47 , No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87. 258 |
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 | Jane Austen | JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. qtd. in Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 285 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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