American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
The woman who taught America to love Greece did her best work after turning sixty.
Victoria Houseman follows Edith Hamilton from a career as a headmistress into the retirement in which she wrote The Greek Way and became the most widely read popular classicist in America. The late start is the striking fact, and Houseman is good on her private life as well as the books.
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Tyler Cowen
Victoria Houseman, American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton. A good and fun book. Interesting throughout, and drives home the point about just how early Hamilton did her most important work on mythology. It remains widely read today.
Source · August 2023
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