Emily Hamilton and Other Writings

Sukey Vickery was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1779. At age twenty-two she became a published author when her poems appeared in the Massachusetts Spy. Two years later her novel Emily Hamilton appeared in print. After her marriage in 1804 she ceased to publish but continued to write. She died at the untimely age of forty-two. Scott Slawinski is an assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University and the author of Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy, and Charles Brockden Brown s Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextList of CharactersEmily HamiltonPoems Published in the Massachusetts Spy     LINES, Addressed to JOHN ADAMS, ESQ. late PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES     BEAUTY ADDRESS to PIETY     CHARACTER of a YOUNG LADY     To FIDELIA     To THEODORUS     RESIGNATION     To the Memory of Miss H. who departed this life on the 6th of July, after a short illness     To FIDELIA     To THEODORUS     EVENING REFLECTIONS     [untitled.]     To EUGENE     To FIDELIA     To THEODORUS     To CONTENT     LINES,Occasioned by the Death of Miss E ****     SUMMER     [untitled.]     SONNET to FIDELIA     To FREDERICUnpublished Manuscripts     Ode for the New year. Jan. 1st , 1784     [Letter to Adeline Hartwell]     Written after reading some very elegant extracts from Campbell's pleasures of hope.  Address to Hope     A tale for those who deal in the marvelous     [untitled]     [untitled]     To Adelaide-     [Letter to Isaiah Thomas, Junior]     [Journal]Appendix     TRIBUTE to MERIT     [Review of Emily Hamilton]Notes