LC control no. | n 85295034 |
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LC classification | PR4739.H164 |
Personal name heading | Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816 |
Variant(s) | Hamilton, Eliza, 1756?-1816 Author of Letters on the elementary principles of education, 1756?-1816 Letters on the elementary principles of education, Author of, 1756?-1816 |
Found in | Her The cottagers of Glenburnie, 1808: t.p. (Elizabeth Hamilton) Her Examples of questions, 1829: t.p. (Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, author of Letters on the elementary principles of education) Her Translation of the letters of a Hindoo rajah, 1819: t.p. (Eliza Hamilton) DNB (Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1758-1816) Politics and genre in the works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756-1816, 2012: ECIP introd. (Elizabeth was born in Belfast in 1756, the third child of a merchant and his wife. In 1762, several years after her father died from typhus, his widow, no longer able to cope, divided the family. Elizabeth's brother and sister remained in Ireland with their mother (until she died in 1767) while, she, as the youngest, was sent to Scotland to be raised by her paternal aunt near Stirling) Oxford dictionary of national biography, online ed., viewed Nov. 25, 2011 (Hamilton, Elizabeth (1756?-1816), novelist and essayist, was born in Belfast, probably on 25 July 1756, though the date is often given as 1758) |