Author: Eliza Helen Hamilton
Author: Eliza Helen Hamilton (1807–1868)
Biography: Eliza Helen Hamilton was born in 3 October 1807 in Glasgow, the daughter of merchant Charles Hamiltion and his wife Isabella (née Campbell). Her siblings include attorney and novelist Alexander Hamilton and novelist Catherine Georgina Hamilton. As a poet, she was the author of the hymn "Jesus, my Lord, to Thee I cry" and her collected works appeared as Hymns for the Weary (1869). The collection was published posthumously with a preface by her sister and her only novel The Destroyer: A Temperance Tale (1869) was published the same week. She never married and lived with her parents. She died on 14 April 1868 in Edinburgh.
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References: pers inf (Gordon Taylor); Scottish Census (1851, 1861)
Fiction Titles:
- The Destroyer: A Temperance Tale. 1 vol. Edinburgh: James Taylor, 1869.