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Mary Hamilton Before Execution, St. Petersburg by Pavel Svedomskiy, 1904. In her highly influential text A Room of One's Own, author Virginia Woolf alludes to the characters in the ballad. She refers by name to Mary Beton, Mary Seton, and Mary Carmichael as recurrent personae, leaving only Mary Hamilton, the narrator of the ballad, unmentioned.
Mary Hamilton, or Maria Danilovna Gamentova (died 14 March 1719), was the lady-in-waiting of Empress Catherine I of Russia and a royal mistress of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. She was executed for abortion , infanticide , theft and slander of Empress Catherine.
Mary Lucille Hamilton (October 13, 1935 – November 11, 2002) was an African American civil rights activist.Her case before the United States Supreme Court, Hamilton v. . Alabama, decided that an African American woman was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely to whites in the Southern United States, [2] and that calling a black person by his or her first ...
Charles Hamilton (born Mary Hamilton) was an English 18th-century female husband.In 1746, Hamilton – while living as a man – married Mary Price. [1] [2] After Price reported she was suspicious of Hamilton's manhood to local authorities, Hamilton was prosecuted for vagrancy, and sentenced in 1746 to a public whipping in four towns and to six months imprisonment with hard labour.
Lady Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton (1876–1918), who had The Princess of Wales as sponsor at her baptism; she was lost at sea when the RMS Leinster was torpedoed. She died unmarried. Lord Claud Francis Hamilton (1878–1878, on the same day) Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton (1880–1917), who in 1902 married Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow (1877 ...
Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, also known as Mary Victoria Hamilton [1] (11 December 1850 – 14 May 1922), was a Scottish noblewoman who was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco by marriage to Albert, Hereditary Prince of Monaco.
Lady Mary Hamilton or Lady Mary Walker (née Leslie; 8 May 1736 – 29 February 1821) was a Scottish novelist of the 18th century. She was the youngest daughter of Alexander Leslie, 5th Earl of Leven and the mother of James Walker , a Rear admiral in the British Royal Navy .
Mary Agnes Hamilton CBE (née Adamson, 8 July 1882 – 10 February 1966) [1] was a writer, journalist, broadcaster, civil servant, and the Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. She headed the American Division of the Ministry of Information and then of the Foreign Office from no later than 1946 until 1952, and worked for ...