Manchester Digital Collections

The Mary Hamilton Papers

The Mary Hamilton Papers

The Mary Hamilton Papers

Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), courtier and diarist, stood at the nexus of several interlocking royal, aristocratic, literary and artistic circles in late eighteenth-century London. The Mary Hamilton Papers in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, which include almost 2,500 letters, 16 meticulously detailed diaries, and six manuscript volumes, supplemented by a number of letters, diaries and manuscript volumes held elsewhere, form a rich resource providing a window into the intellectual and social world of Hamilton’s day, particularly the Court of George III (Hamilton was sub-governess to his daughters), and the Bluestocking circle. Among the major figures represented in the archive are members of the royal family and other courtiers, members of Hamilton’s own family (including her uncle, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton), and prominent members of the Bluestocking circle, such as Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Burney, Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Vesey and Mary Delany.

This collection takes the form of an open-access digital edition, part of the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers'. For guidance on how to use this collection please see our quick-start guide. For information on how to cite the project and the corpus of texts see here.

 

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    The project has been funded 2019-22 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.