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Hamilton Aïdé
1826–1906
A stylish figure in Victorian literary society, he moved with ease between novels, poems, songs, and plays. His work was popular in its day, and he is still remembered for lyric poems such as "Love, the Pilgrim".
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A voyage of discovery : A novel of American society
by Hamilton Aïdé
About the author
Born in Paris in 1826, Charles Hamilton Aïdé was a British writer of Greek-English parentage who was educated in England and later studied at the University of Bonn. Before fully turning to literature, he served for several years in the British army and retired with the rank of captain.
Aïdé built a varied career as a novelist, poet, dramatist, and songwriter. Contemporary and later reference sources describe him as a familiar presence in London literary society, and his fiction included works such as Rita and Poet and Peer. He was also known for lyrics that were widely anthologized.
His papers are preserved at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a reminder of the place he held in 19th-century literary culture. He died in 1906.