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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815 NRA: Hamilton Emma (? 1761-1815) nee Lyon pseudonym Amy Hart 2nd wife of Sir William Hamilton DNB: Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model LBT ID: EmHamil1815 VIAF ID: 5722468 LOC ID: n50018497 | B/BAP: 1765-05-12 DIED: 1815-01-15 |
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The second wife of Sir William Hamilton, whom she married in 1786, and the mistress of
Lord Nelson. | |
REFERENCES TO Lady Emma Hamilton [née Lyon]: Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 8 November 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Owenson to Lady Margaret Stanley, 20 April 1810 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1:
¶ 6 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 24: Byron Found 1:
¶ 5 Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1:
¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1:
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