![]() ![]() ![]() She is most unmercifully handsome and so perverse that she has none of those pretty affectations which are the prerogatives of beauty. In 1780, Hamilton wrote Angelica a letter describing his infatuation with Eliza: I have already confessed the influence your sister has gained over me yet notwithstanding this, I have some things of a very serious and heinous nature to lay to her charge. Her lines in the play, "I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him," are drawn from a letter the real Angelica wrote to Eliza, in which she joked, "I love him very much and if you were as generous as the Old Romans you would lend him to me for a while.") (As the musical shows, Hamilton also got pretty flirty with Eliza's vivacious older sister, Angelica. She met Alexander Hamilton in 1780, when both were in their early 20s. ![]() That 'Hamilton' Boycott Completely BackfiredĮlizabeth Hamilton was born into one of colonial New York's leading families.Įlizabeth Schuyler was born in Albany in 1757, to a wealthy family that had social ties to prominent early Americans. ![]()
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