SOURCE: Thaddeus, Janice Farrar. “Elizabeth Hamilton's Domestic Politics.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23 (1994): 265-84.

In the following essay, Thaddeus argues that Hamilton has been inaccurately labeled an anti-Jacobin conservative when her writings show a complexity far beyond such a limited categorization.

I am well convinced that they must ever be content with a very narrow and superficial knowledge of human character, who do not study it at the seasons when it is to be seen in undress; or rather in the nakedness in which it sometimes appears in the domestic scene. The men who boast a knowledge of the world, know mankind only as they appear in one or two particular habits, and these assumed ones. They, therefore, do not seem to be aware of that infinite variety which in reality exists; nor do they enter into the minute circumstances by which that variety is formed. Women have more...