HAMILTON, Elizabeth - BENGER, Elizabeth Ogilvy.

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Memoirs of the late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton, Second edition, first published a year earlier. Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816) was a prominent figure in the Scottish intellectual landscape of her day. An orientalist, Roman historian, and philosopher of education, she published highly successful books in all these fields, as well as doing pioneering practical work for the cause of women's education. This remains the only biography of this remarkable woman.The editor was the historian and novelist Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger (1777-1827), who built up a circle of literary acquaintances in London, which included Elizabeth Hamilton, Jane and Anna Maria Porter, Sarah Wesley, Lady de Crespigny, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin, the painter Robert Smirke, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Joanna Baillie. "By the time of her death, Benger had achieved a modest reputation as a literary hostess; it seems the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton met his future wife, Rosina Wheeler, at one of her parties. This achievement was facilitated by her attractive and vivacious personality" (ODNB).

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