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. | |