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Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816) was a prominent figure in the Scottish intellectual landscape of her day. An Orientalist, a Roman historian, and a philosopher of education, she published highly successful books in all these fields, as well as doing pioneering practical work for the cause of women's education. Elizabeth Benger's text is still the only biography of this remarkable woman. Written by a friend of the Hamilton family, it includes an autobiographical fragment, extracts from Hamilton's journals, and letters to her friend and fellow-philosopher Dugald Stewart. This work has much light to shed on the developing position of women in intellectual life. It should be of interest to researchers in a variety of disciplines.
Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
Published in 1818, this two-volume biography of a novelist and writer on education includes journal extracts, letters, and satirical essays.
Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816
In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres, including novels, satires, historical and educational treatises, and historical biography. Because she wrote from a politically centrist position during a revolutionary age, Grogan suggests, Hamilton has been neglected in favor of authors who fit within the Jacobin/anti-Jacobin framework used to situate women writers of the period. Grogan draws attention to the inadequacies of the Jacobin/ant...
Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
Published in 1818, this two-volume biography of a novelist and writer on education includes journal extracts, letters, and satirical essays.
