Ann Mary Hamilton was an English gothic and romantic novelist.http://www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk/authorTitles.asp?author=324 Her work mixed the gothic and domestic and were unusual in that her villainous characters tended to be reformed by the compassion of others, rather than destroyed by their own darker urges.https://web.archive.org/web/20071220055018/http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/gothic_fiction/Biographies.aspx.