Janet Hamilton

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Standard Name: Hamilton, Janet
Birth Name: Janet Thomson
Married Name: Janet Hamilton
JH was a self-taught Scots working-class poet who produced four volumes of verse and essays in the later nineteenth century. Using vivid and direct language, she treats topics ranging from problems of working-class life such as alcoholism, the plight of women doing piece-work in the home, and environmental degradation, to European liberation movements which she fervently supported.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
ST 's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911.
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She became an especially good friend of Dinah Mulock Craik
Textual Features Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan and...
Travel Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was received by Dickens , Lady Byron , Anna Jameson , the Lord Mayor of London, and various members of the nobility.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
233, 234
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
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The working-class Scots poet Janet Hamilton 's tribute to...

Timeline

March 1848: Chartist uprisings took place in London,...

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March 1848

Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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January 1863: Nationalists revolted for independence in...

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January 1863

Nationalists revolted for independence in Poland, but the insurrection—led largely by students and middle-class urban folk—was put down by the Russian army.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Texts

Wallace, Alexander, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton at her ’Ain Fireside’”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, 1885, pp. 14-23.
Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, 1885, pp. 1-13.
Hamilton, Janet et al. Poems and Ballads. James Maclehose, 1868.
Hamilton, Janet. Poems and Essays of a Miscellaneous Character. T. Murray; Sampson and Ritchie; A. Hall, 1863.
Hamilton, Janet. Poems of Purpose and Sketches in Prose. T. Murray, 1865.
Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Essays, and Sketches. James Maclehose, 1870.
Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Sketches, and Essays. James Maclehose, 1885.