Mary Agnes Hamilton was a novelist, essayist, memoirist, member of Parliament for the British Labour Party, and journalist. She made an important contribution to the history of the Labour Party through her nonfiction writing, and her novels, which focused primarily on World War I and the disruption it brought to civilian life, vividly portray the war years and their aftermath. The eldest of the six children of Robert Adamson, a professor of logic at Manchester, Aberdeen, and Glasgow Universities, and Daisy Duncan, a former teacher, "Molly" Hamilton was born in 1884 in Manchester. As she recalls in her memoir Remembering My Good Friends (1944), hers was a wonderful childhood. She was educated first by her father and then attended the Aberdeen Girls' High School and the Glasgow High School for girls. In 1902 she went as a Mathilda Blind scholar to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she took first-class honors in classics...