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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.
Published in 1818, this two-volume biography of a novelist and writer on education includes journal extracts, letters, and satirical essays.
Published in 1818, this two-volume biography of a novelist and writer on education includes journal extracts, letters, and satirical essays.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days. Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton—Alexander Hamilton’s devoted wife—in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenal musical Hamilton. But they don’t know her full story. A strong pioneer woman, a loving sister, a caring mother, and in her later years, a generous philanthropist, Eliza had many sides—and this fascinating biography brings her mul...
In the first book-length study of Elizabeth Hamilton, Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. Arguing that politically centrist writers have been overlooked, Grogan suggests that situating Hamilton in terms of the Jacobin/anti-Jacobin framework obscures her radical innovations in the deployment of genre. Hamilton's example shows new strategies for uncovering the means by which women writers participated in the revolutionary debate.