Mary Agnes Hamilton

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Standard Name: Hamilton, Mary Agnes
Birth Name: Mary Agnes Adamson
Nickname: Molly
Married Name: Mary Agnes Hamilton
Pseudonym: Iconoclast
MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional treatments of topics that concerned her in public life: political charisma, pacifism, women's access to political activity. Her non-fiction includes books of history and geography, political analyses of the Labour Party the Trade Unions, and life-writing, most notably two successive volumes of autobiography, and the biographies of politicians including women who deserve to be better known for their activism. She calls her book about Newnham College a biography as well.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Mary Agnes Hamilton, taken from the side but turning her face to the camera. Her blouse or jacket looks silky; her dark hair is in coils over her ears.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Rose Macaulay
The volume was much praised. The Athenæum called RMone of the most interesting of contemporary poets and a very accomplished metrist.
qtd. in
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
118
A few years later, however, Humbert Wolfe wrote of her poetry that...
Occupation Edith J. Simcox
With her friend Mary Hamilton , EJS operated a successful shirt and collar manufacturing co-operative business at 68 Dean Street in Soho.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
331
Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, 1998, pp. xi - xvii, 1.
xi
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.
27, 29
Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
1: 149n1
Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
137
Her list of...
Reception Vernon Lee
Interest in her work was waning by 1937 when some of her letters were first privately printed (though Mary Agnes Hamilton in Remembering My Good Friends, 1944, noted her extreme subtlety and acuteness of...
Residence Naomi Royde-Smith
After the First World War she lived in a flat at the top of a large house at 44 Prince's Gardens in Kensington (an address later remembered by Mary Agnes Hamilton as in nearby Exhibition...
Textual Features Ray Strachey
In this volume contributors Eleanor F. Rathbone , MP (a very early woman member of the House of Commons), Mary Agnes Hamilton , Erna Reiss , Alison Neilans , and RS herself assess the legal...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Mary Agnes Hamilton felt that PB 's superb strength of feeling gave fire and force to her writing.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Up-Hill All the Way. Cape, 1953.
114
Bentley herself wrote in "O Dreams, O Destinations" that her ambition had been to write a...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote that RM explained her motives for writing as a love of playing with words: to find new ones, right ones, fresh uses for old ones: to make them dance: to make...
Travel Ray Strachey
RS travelled round Greece by car with her friend Mary Agnes Hamilton .
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
219

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Texts

Hamilton, Mary Agnes. The Labour Party To-Day. Labour Book Service, 1939.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. The Last Fortnight. W. Collins Sons, 1920.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald. Leonard Parsons, 1923.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Thomas Carlyle. L. Parsons, 1926.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Up-Hill All the Way. Cape, 1953.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Women at Work. G. Routledge, 1941.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Yes. W. Heinemann, 1914.