Hamilton, ELIZABETH

Hamilton, ELIZABETH, authoress, was born of a Scottish family at Belfast in 1758, and, after residing in various parts of Scotland and in London, died at Edinburgh, 23d July 1816. Her works comprise Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796); Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800); Letters on Education (1802); Life of Agrippina (1804); Letters on the Moral and Religious Principle (1806); and—the work by which she is best known—The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), a singularly vivid and life-like representation of humble rural life in Scotland.