Life
1758-1816, b. Belfast, d. Harrowgate; sister of orientalist, Charles Hamilton;
lived in Scotland, wrote on education; philanthropist; Letters on Elementary
Principles of Education (1810), German trans. 1832; her many novels
include The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), many editions incl.
German trans, 1827; Letters of a Hindu Rajah, influence by her
br. Charles Hamilton (1753-1792), capt. of India Company, and fnd. mbr.
Asiatic Society of Calcutta; Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, a
parody of Godwin’s circle; d. Harrowgate. RR PI DIW DIL DUB [DNB]
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Criticism
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (1821), Vol.
II, ‘Elizabeth Hamilton’, pp.297-304; ‘Charles Hamilton’,
Ibid., pp.294-97.
B. G. MacCarthy, The Female Pen, Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818
(Cork UP 1994), with epigram from Elizabeth Hamilton [inter al.].
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Notes
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges
Figgis 1912), cites poems in Scottish anthologies; also The Cottagers
of Glenburnie (n.d.).
Belfast Central Public Library holds Ballymuckbeg I/fict; also, Poems I/820.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)