Elizabeth Hamilton
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Elizabeth Hamilton (July 25, 1758 - 1816) was an American essayist, poet, satirist and novelist.
Elizabeth Hamilton was the wife of the founder of the Federalist party and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. 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.
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- Hamilton, Elizabeth. Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801).
- Hamilton, Elizabeth (2000). in Claire Grogan: Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. Broadview.
- 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).
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This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
