Eliza Hamilton

Eliza Mary Hamilton (1807–1851) was an Irish poet.

Her brother was the astronomer and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, and she has been described as "probably one of the few nineteenth-century poets able to address the moon from the perspective of one who had actually studied its contours through a telescope and helped to chart its movement." ) which appeared weekly from January to June 1830 and was superseded by the slightly longer-lived National Magazine, which appeared monthly from July to December 1830 and for four issues in 1831. Her "On Reading over Again Letters of the Dead" appeared in the second issue, in January 1830. She subsequently published in the Dublin University Magazine as "E.M.H.".

Her one book, entitled Poems, was published in Dublin in 1838 by Hodges and Smith, under her full name.

She had planned to produce a second book in the 1840s, but suffered poor health from 1846 and was unable to do so.

Death and legacy Hamilton died at Dunsink on 14 May 1851 and was buried in St Mary's Church in Dublin with her sister Grace and their parents.

Selected publications (available online via Google Books)