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Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known [2] author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. [3] A graduate of Bryn Mawr College , she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich .
Hamilton family of the United States ... They went on to have eight children, thus establishing the Hamilton family in the United States. [6] ... Edith M. Hamilton ...
Hamilton was born on December 3, 1873, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Gertrude Pond (1840–1917) and Montgomery Hamilton (1843–1909).Her older sister Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was an internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicist of her era; Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) was one of the founders of industrial medicine; Margaret Hamilton (1871–1969) was ...
On 24 July 1873, Chapman married Edith Sarah Hamilton (born c. 1847), daughter of George Augustus Rochfort-Boyd, JP, DL, of Middleton Park, County Westmeath, [7] and they had four daughters, Eva Jane Louisa (born 1874), Rose Isabel (born 1878), Florence Livia (born 1880) and Mabel Cecele (born 1881).
Edith Roelker Curtis (1912) – author, historian, and diarist Dorothy Keeley Aldis (1914) – American children's author and poet Emily Hale (1916) – speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot [ 8 ]
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes is a book written by Edith Hamilton, published in 1942 by Little, Brown and Company. [1] It has been reissued since then by several publishers, including its 75th anniversary illustrated edition. [2] It retells stories of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology drawn from a variety of sources. The ...
Hamilton was the father of Andrew H. Hamilton, a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the grandfather of author Edith Hamilton , whose books on mythology have become classics, and Alice Hamilton , a pioneer in American industrial medicine and the first woman on the Harvard University medical faculty.
Vidler was born on 27 December 1899 in Rye, Sussex, the son of shipowner and amateur local historian (author of A New History of Rye, published in 1934, and The Story of the Rye Volunteers, published in 1954) Leopold Amon Vidler (1870–1954) [1] of The Stone House, Rye, [8] and his wife Edith Hamilton, daughter of Edward Roper. [9]