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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.
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Mary Hamilton awaiting execution, painting by Pavel Svedomsky (1904) 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.
In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder commented that the purity of the sound was notable at the time. He wrote of the album "Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs (most notably "East Virginia" and "Mary Hamilton") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though ...
Mary's marriage to Thomas was then declared void in 1473, and she was forced to marry James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton. Thomas and Mary together had two children: Lady Margaret Boyd (1468–1533 [ 3 ] ), married, firstly, Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes ; secondly, Sir David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis .
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 ...