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That Hamilton Woman : Emma and Nelson/ Barry Gough.
Van Pelt Library DA483 .H3 G68 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gough, Barry, 1948- author.
- Marder, Arthur Jacob, author of prologue.
- Roberts, Andrew, 1963- author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1765-1815.
- Hamilton, Emma.
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805--Relations with women.
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson.
- Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.
- Hamilton, William.
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
- Mistresses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mistresses.
- Relations with women.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, England's greatest sailor, fell deeply in love with Emma Hamilton in the years before Trafalgar. This, together with his quest for glory and victory entangled him in an inescapable web of circumstances and slander. The author explores the evolving scandal, the high political stakes that were involved, and the love affair itself which so influenced the fortunes of England's glory and the fate of her "Wooden Walls." Emma, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain's naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book, Barry Gough seeks to defend Emma by drawing on the letters between the protagonists and the unpublished examination of her career by Arthur Marder, famed American historian of the Royal Navy. The author shows how this most talented and beautiful of women fell victim to innuendo, slander, and cruel caricature. She was to die in poverty in Calais in 1815, just months before Napoleon's final defeat." -- publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Patroness of the Navy: The Women Behind the Fleet 51
- 2 Emma Meets Hamilton 65
- 5 Emma Meets Nelson 68
- 4 Emma Meets Fanny 78
- 5 Nelson and Emma Meet Immortality 93.
- Notes:
- "Including the essay 'That Hamilton Woman' by Arthur Marder" -- title page
- ISBN:
- 9781591146131
- 1591146135
- OCLC:
- 945951303
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