People/Characters Mary Hamilton
Works (7)
- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
- Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Brian Dolan
- Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shevelow
- The Ways of Grace by Linda Francis Lee
- Swiftly flows the Arrow; the story of Arrowtown and its district by John Bell Thomson
- Peter the Great: Part 1 of 3 by Robert K. Massie
- One Breath Away by Michal Scott
Description
| Description | Mary Hamilton: quasi-historical character theoretically associated with Mary Queen of Scots and the "four Maries" who accompanied the young Queen Mary to France. Mary Hamilton becomes pregnant (perhaps by the queen's husband) and throws the babe in the sea. She is condemned to die for the crime. No record has been found of such an event outside the ballad, and the ballad has the name of two of the Four Maries wrong. The tale is told in the ballad of "Mary Hamilton," #173 in Francis James Child's "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads." |