William Hamilton Maxwell

Standard Name: Maxwell, William Hamilton

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Dunlop
The writer William Hamilton Maxwell was ED 's cousin, older than her by five years. His second name was his mother's birth name. He published his first novel, O'Hara, or, 1798, in 1825, and...
Literary responses Harriett Jay
Response to the novel was mixed. The Academy criticized it as heavily derivative of William Hamilton Maxwell 's Wild Sports of the West and (oddly) from Sydney Morgan 's strongly pro-Irish The Wild Irish Girl...
Textual Production Eliza Dunlop
ED contributed several inset poems to her cousin William Hamilton Maxwell 's anonymous historical novel The Dark Lady of Doona, set on the west coast of Ireland at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Timeline

13 December 1838: The Australian printed the best-known poem...

Writing climate item

13 December 1838

The Australian printed the best-known poem by the Irish-born Australian poet Eliza Dunlop : The Aboriginal Mother, whose subject was suggested by the terrible massacre at Myall Creek that same year.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Dunlop, Eliza. The Aboriginal Mother and Other Poems. Mulini Press, 1981.

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