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Hamilton, Alexander
(1757-1804) Statesman and political writer, b. in the West Indies, was one of the framers of the Co...
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Hamilton, Thomas
(1789-1842) Novelist, brother of Sir William Hamilton (q.v.), wrote a novel, Cyril Thornton (1827),...
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Hamilton, William
1) Hamilton, William of Gilbertfield (1665?-1751) Poet, served in the army, from which he retired ...
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Carter, Elizabeth
(1717-1806) Miscellaneous writer, b. at Deal, dau. of a clergyman. Originally backward, she applied...
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Eastlake, Elizabeth, Lady (Rigby)
(1809-1893) dau. of Dr. Edward Rigby of Norwich, a writer on medical and agricultural subjects, spe...
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Elizabeth, Queen
(1533-1603) Was one of the scholar-women of her time, being versed in Latin, Greek, French, and Ita...
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Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson)
(1720-1800) Critic, dau. of a gentleman of Yorkshire, m. a grandson of Lord Sandwich. She was one o...
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Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady
(1677-1727) Poetess, dau. of Sir Charles Halkett of Pitfirrane, and wife of Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pi...
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Robins, Elizabeth
("C.E. Raimond") American novelist and actress. New Moon (1895), Below the Salt (1896), The Open Qu...
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Hayne, Paul Hamilton
(1830-1886) Poet, b. at Charleston, S. Carolina, of an old family, contributed to various magazines...
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Maxwell, William Hamilton
(1792-1850) Novelist, a Scoto-Irishman, b. at Newry, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, entered the ...
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(1806-1861) Poetess, was the dau. of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, who assumed the last name on s...
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)
(1810-1865) Novelist, dau. of William Stevenson, a Unitarian minister, and for some time Keeper of ...
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Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth (Simpson)
(1753-1821) Novelist and dramatist, dau. of a Suffolk farmer. In a romantic fit she left her home a...
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Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
(1802-1838) Poetess, dau. of an army agent, was b. in London. She was a prolific and, in her day, r...
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Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan)
(1808-1877) Grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley S. (q.v.), m. in 1827 the Hon. G.C. Norton, a union ...
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Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
(b. 1837) Novelist. Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd (1862), Henry Dunbar (1864), Only a Clod (18...
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (Mrs. H.D. Ward)
(b. 1844) American novelist. The Gates Ajar (1869), Hedged In (1870), Story of Avis (1877), An Old ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin