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Nome completo: Lillias Anna Hamilton
Born in New South Wales of an Australian mother and a Scots father, she qualified as a doctor and practised in Calcutta (1890–4). She was then in charge of the Dufferin Hospital, Calcutta (1893–4) before becoming physician to the Emir of Afghanistan (1894–7). Her novel A Vizier's Daughter (1900) draws on the latter experience. Gul Begum is a resilient princess who becomes a hostage and a slave; she battles against circumstance and finally dies saving her widowed employer, with whom she has fallen in love. A Nurse's Bequest (1907) describes the working life of a nurse in a hospital twenty-five years previously. The heroine is one of five sisters, is bullied by other nurses for her gentility, but perseveres, and marries a German doctor. Much of the book is spent arguing for a system for the education of pauper children in Homes in the colonies. Hamilton was later (1908–24) Warden of Studley Horticultural College for Women. She died in Nice.
( (1997). Hamilton, Lillias. In Kemp, S., Mitchell, C., & Trotter, D. (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 Aug. 2026, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001/acref-9780198117605-e-525.) |
