To celebrate Hamilton coming to Disney +, I’m talking about the woman who inspired a lot of my research, Eliza Hamilton, and the end of her life in Washington DC.
Suggested Reading!!
Gordon-Reed, Annette. “The intense debates surrounding Hamilton don’t diminish the musical- they enrich it.” Vox. September 13th, 2016. Accessed June 28th, 2020. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/9/13/12894934/hamilton-debates-history-race-politics-literature.
Chandler, Clare. “’Let me be part of the narrative’- The Schuyler Sisters ‘almost’ feminist?” Contemporary Theatre Review 28, vol. 3. Accessed June 28th, 2020. https://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/2018/chandler-hamilton-almost-feminist/.
Andrews, Maddie. “ ‘I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel’- Why in Hamilton needs to be evaluated.”
Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past. Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Bibliography
Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution Vol I. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860.
Harrison, Samuel Alexander, Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, secretary and aid to Washington. Albany: J. Munsell, 1876.
“November 9: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1854).” The Church of the Epiphany. November 8th, 2017. Accessed June 28th, 2020. http://epiphanydc.org/2017/11/08/november-9-elizabeth-schuyler-hamilton-1854/
Cleveland Daily Herald, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 March 1845. Newspaper article. From The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, University of Virginia, Rotunda. Accessed June 28th, 2020.
Holly, Eliza. Eliza Holly to Catherine Schuyler Malcom Cochran, June 30th; July 16th, 1850; 1851; August 12th, 1851; March 21st, 1851; December 19th, 1852; December 22nd, 1852; July 7th, 1854; November 16th, 1854; 1855. Letter. From Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library, The Hamilton Family Papers, 1768-1930. Accessed July 2nd, 2020.
Holly, Eliza. Eliza Holly to John Church Hamilton, September 5th, 1854. Letter. From Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library, The Hamilton Family Papers, 1768-1930. Accessed July 2nd, 2020.