Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Hamilton
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Standard Name: Hamilton, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Hamilton
Nickname: Eliza Hamilton
In her own day EH
was best known and loved for My Ain Fireside (a song expressive of national Scottish feeling and the glorification of the domestic) and for Cottagers of Glenburnie, 1808, a novel of domestic improvement. In later generations her satire on the Jacobins has got her type-cast as an unmitigated conservative. In fact her writings in many genres (poems, novels, essays, biography, and writings on education, religion, and philosophy) combine a scholarly and an ironic bent, and her conservatism includes a strong streak of feminism. Her novels make less use than most of the marriage plot, and she presents single women as strong and admirable.
The fictional spinster here finds Miss Byron's bachelor sympathetic but querulous, and decides to make clear by a parallel account that unmarried women are not like that. I declare, on the honour of a...
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Mary Leadbeater
Despite her didactic intention, and although she provides useful recipies and information on herbal medicine, ML
shows none of the condescension of analogous works like Elizabeth Hamilton
's Cottagers of Glenburnie. The dialogues are...
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Elizabeth Meeke
The orphan hero, Theodore, is brought up among a collection of intellectual eccentrics, reminiscent of such satirical novels as those of Elizabeth Hamilton
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Sarah Green
The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a...
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Mary Hays
The plot follows the life-stories of two sisters (somewhat crudely distinguished for worldly selfishness on the one hand and prudent, generous sincerity on the other) and their brother, who is a spendthrift like his frivolous...
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Elizabeth Helme
The work includes an account of the Hottentots (in whose society all are equal, without distinction of rank, and where marriages are made for as long as the two parties shall be content with the...
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Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
's early letters to her friend Fanny Robinson
are earnest and priggish. By the 1790s she was sending the Ruxtons letters which have literary merit in themselves (mixing amusing anecdote and expressions of affection)...
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Emma Parker
EP
's Aretas. A Novel, published this year, appears not to have survived.
Without having seen a copy of this work, which is unlisted in OCLC, it is reasonable to suppose that it...
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Ann Taylor Gilbert
She altered the magazine's policy, reviewing Mary Brunton
's Self-Control, and then Maria Edgeworth
's Tales, I forget which series,
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 203
although until then it had not been customary in that work...
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Maria Edgeworth
The Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June this year, for a women's periodical bearing the names of ME
, BarbauldInchbald
, and Hamilton
, seems not to have materialised. It...
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Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87.
258
The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
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Carola Oman
CO
issued her next historical biography, Elizabeth of Bohemia, about the Scottish-born Electress Palatine who was a great patron and a force in European politics during the seventeenth century.
Elizabeth Hamilton
had planned...
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Jane Austen
JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
qtd. in
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
285
She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
