Elizabeth Hamilton (writer)
Elizabeth Hamilton ( born July 25, 1756 in Belfast, † July 23, 1816 in Harrogate ) was a British poet, writer and satirist.
Life
Elizabeth Hamilton was the daughter of Scottish businessman Charles Hamilton ( † 1759) and his coming from Ireland wife Katherine Mackay († 1767). After the early death of her father, she grew up with her siblings at her paternal aunt, Mrs. Marshall, in Scotland, near Stirling, on. From 1788 she lived with her brother, Captain Charles Hamilton ( 1753-1792 ), and helped him in the translation of the Hedaya. Later, Hamilton lived in Bath, where they 1800 Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, a satire on the admirers of the French Revolution published. A year later, she traveled to Wales and Scotland; after two years, she settled in Edinburgh.
In the following years Elizabeth Hamilton wrote other novels, essays and travel books. Numerous writings of narrative literature have established Elizabeth Hamilton's reputation as a major writer. Therefore, through their literary popularity it also got in 1804 by the British government an annual pension of £ 200 awarded for her services to literature and to patriotism.
However, far greater importance to their religious and educational writings, which are carried by the faith in God. Trust in God and appreciation of Scripture gained increasingly in Elizabeth Hamilton's life meaning and certain their entire educational literature, as shown in the thesis " Studies on the pedagogical ideas of Elizabeth Hamilton " ( Aachen 1970).