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HAMILTON, Mrs. (1796-1870)

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Born: 1796

Died: 1870

Editorial Description

of Paisley; practical phrenologist and lecturer; regarded by respectability-seeking phrenologists as a quack but by Owenite socialists as a popular defender of women's rights on the basis of equal mental endowment in women and men; highly successful at drawing large crowds; appears to have remained largely in Scotland before the 1840s, subsequently in London and elsewhere, lecturing mostly in Halls of Science and mechanics' institutes on "The Course of Women's Freedom" and "The New Age of Harmony," usually also giving delineations; last appears lecturing on phrenology to a Public Discussion Class in the Council Chambers, Oxford, 1856; at the latter date in Oxford she did a delineation of the Owenite social missionary Alexander Campbell , which was reported in the Glasgow Sentinel, 21 June 1856. (

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498. HAMILTON, Mrs., of Paisley; practical phrenologist and lecturer; regarded by respectability-seeking phrenologists as a quack
but by Owenite socialists as a popular defender of women's rights
on the basis of equal mental endowment in women and men; highly
successful at drawing large crowds; appears to have remained largely
in Scotland before the 1840s, subsequently in London and elsewhere,
lecturing mostly in Halls of Science and mechanics' institutes on "The
Course of Women's Freedom" and "The New Age of Harmony," usually
also giving delineations; last appears lecturing on phrenology to a
Public Discussion Class in the Council Chambers, Oxford, 1856; at
the latter date in Oxford she did a delineation of the Owenite social
missionary Alexander Campbell (1796-1870), which was reported in
the Glasgow Sentinel, 21 June 1856. (