Elizabeth Hamilton

Elizabeth Hamilton (July 25, 1758 - 1816) was a British essayist, poet, satirist and novelist. Born in Ireland to Scottish parents, she lived most of her life in Scotland, and later England.

Her first literary efforts were directed in supporting her brother Charles in his orientalist and linguistic studies. After his death in 1792 she continued to publish orientalist scholarship, as well as historical, educationalist and theoretical works. She wrote "The Cottagers of Glenburnie" (1808), a tale which had much popularity in its day, and perhaps had some effect in the improvement of certain aspects of humble domestic life in Scotland. She also wrote the satirical novel "Memoirs of Modern Philosophers" (1800), "Letters on Education", "Essays on the Human Mind", and the anti- Jacobin "Letters of a Hindoo Rajah" in 1796, a work in the tradition of Montesquieu and Goldsmith.

References

*Hamilton, Elizabeth. "Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education" (1801).
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*Hamilton, Elizabeth. "Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah" (1796). Ed. Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell (1999). Broadview Press.
*Hamilton, Elizabeth. "Memoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Germanicus". (1804).

External links

* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1957 Elizabeth Hamilton entry in the Literary Encyclopedia]