SOURCE: Edgeworth, Maria. “Character and Writings of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton.” The Gentleman's Magazine Supplement 86, no. 2 (December 1816): 623-24.

In the following obituary, Edgeworth, a literary contemporary of Hamilton's, reflects on the deceased author's major works and comments on her legacy.

The following account of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, is understood to have been written by Miss Edgeworth:

She was born at Belfast, in Ireland, and the affection for her Country which she constantly expressed proved that she had a true Irish heart. This lady is well known to the publick as the author of The Cottagers of Glenburnie, The Modern Philosophers,Letters on Female Education, and various other works. She has obtained in different departments of literature just celebrity, and has established a reputation that will strengthen and consolidate from the operation of time, that destroyer of all that is false or superficial.

The most popular of her...