Featuring Esme Shapiro’s exquisite, thoroughly researched art, which mirrors paintings from 18th-century America, this is a beautiful and informative biography with extensive back matter.”ĮLIZA: The Story of Elizabeth Scuyler Hamilton was written by Margaret McNamara and was edited by Lee wade. Along with giving birth to and raising eight children, she helped. Eliza Schuyler Hamilton grew up in the Schuyler family home near Albany, New York. Eliza was a source of valuable advice and wisdom to Hamilton as his political career began to take off after the war. Eliza outlived Hamilton by fifty years during that time she founded the first orphanage in New York State, raised funds for the Washington Monument, and kept the flame of her husband’s memory and achievements alive. She died at age 97, buried beside her husband in the Trinity churchyard. She stood by him throughout his tumultuous life, and after his death, she single-handedly collected his papers and preserved them for historians and musical-theater writers of the future.
until she met and fell in love with the charismatic Hamilton. Eliza was expected to marry into a similarly powerful family. She was the spouse of Alexander Hamilton, famous in the early American government following the Declaration of Independence and considered one of the founders of our American republic. “We all know the story of scrappy Alexander Hamilton and his rise in American politics–but how much do we know about his workmate, inspiration, and stabilizing force, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton? Margaret McNamara employs the letter-writing style of the period to tell the story of Eliza Hamilton, who was born into a family of considerable wealth, power, and influence in Albany, New York, in 1757. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was born on Augin Albany, New York and died on Novemin Washington, D.C.
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