Elizabeth Hamilton

(1756-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816 DNB: Hamilton, Elizabeth (1756?–1816), novelist and essayist LBT ID: ElHamil1816 VIAF ID: 54222268 LOC ID: n85295034	B/BAP: 1756-07-25 DIED: 1816-07-23
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The daughter of the merchant Charles Hamilton (d. 1759), she wrote novels, including The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), and was an acquaintance of Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth.
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Hamilton: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch X. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 35