loyalists such as Hannah More argued that “there is a different bent of understanding in the sexes” while those their detractors denounced as "Jacobins", such as Wollstonecraft insisted that “there is no sex in the soul or mind” and that women were limited only by their inadequate education. In Memoirs, Hamilton seems to occupy a middle ground, urging greater educational opportunity for women but within the bounds of a consciously Christian, middle-class morality that emphasises women's responsibility for the domestic sphere. Hamilton's most important pedagogical works followed: Letters on Education (1801), Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801), Letters addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle (1806), and Hints addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools (1815). In 1808, Hamilton wrote The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), a celebrated tale of Scottish manners and mores which cast a critical eye on hardships and inequities endured by women in domestic life. It also occasioned a lengthy discourse on child education. The fictional Mr Gourley and Mrs Mason direct the teacher William Morrison's efforts to reorganise his school on a spare-the-rod monitorial system emphasising accountability and self-government. Mrs Gourley cites David Manson's account of "what he calls his play school", and in a footnote Hamilton further acknowledges Manson. His "extraordinary talents", she suggests, were exercised in Belfast "in too limited a sphere" to attract the attention they deserved. Hamilton spent much of her later life in Edinburgh. She died in Harrogate, England after a short illness. Bibliography References Further reading Benger, Elizabeth (1818). Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, 2 Vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Boyle, Deborah (2021). "Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers as a Philosophical Text." British Journal for the History of Philosophy Boyle, Deborah (2021). "Elizabeth Hamilton on Sympathy and the Selfish Principle." Journal of Scottish Philosophy 19, no. 3, pp. 219–41. Egenolf, Susan B. (2009). The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson. Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Edgeworth, Maria (1816). "Character and Writings of Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 86, pp. 623–24. Gokcekus, Samin. (2019). "Elizabeth Hamilton's Scottish Associationism: Early Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 5, no. 3, pp. 267–85. Gordon, Alexander (1894). "Elizabeth Hamilton 1756–1816," Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 23–28. Grogan, Claire (2002). "Crossing Genre, Gender and Race in