Nelson's Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documents (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Czisnik, Marianne R. E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating book by Marianne Czisnik aims at critically reviewing Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton by bringing together important letters of theirs that have only been published in parts over the last 200 years. In doing so it is possible to assess their relationship and to obtain insights into Nelson's personality and his morality that are not revealed in his official correspondence. Lady Hamilton was so obviously lacking in the subservience and passivity expected from women in that era that authors started to exclude her public sphere of influence by reducing her to a private weakness of Nelson's, who could be successful at sea, where he was far away from the enthralling influence of a manipulating woman. The letters in this edition testify how Admiral Nelson's life at sea was not exclusively public nor was Lady Hamilton's life ashore solely private. It also shows how the two supposedly separate spheres of male and female lives were connected. This scholarly edition of the primary material consists of about 400 letters that Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton during the last seven years of his life and about a dozen letters of her to him that have survived.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003047070
• Artikelnr.: 69094287

Autorenporträt

Marianne Czisnik is a leading scholar and has published on a wide range of topics related to Horatio Nelson. She has a law degree and practiced in Germany before becoming a researcher of Nelson at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
........................................................................age
xi Acknowledgements
.....................................................................xiii
Preface...........................................................................................xv
General Introduction
.......................................................................1 A.
Choice of
Documents................................................................1
B. Editorial Procedures
..................................................................2 C.
Conditions under Which the Letters Were Written .................13 D.
Outer Appearance of Letters
...................................................17 Abbreviations and
Short Titles Used in Citations .........................23 I: The Beginning
of an Enduring Relationship, June 1978-December
1800........................................................... 25 II: The
Baltic Campaign, January-June 1801 ..............................97 III:
The Channel Campaign, July-October 1801 .......................245 IV:
Settled, May 1802-August 1805..........................................337
V: The End, September-October 1805
......................................507
Appendices..................................................................................533
1. Selected List of Previous
Publications....................................535 2.Chronology of
Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton ..................539 3.Items Mentioned
in the Letters, Nelson's Wills and Codicils to His Wills
...................................................................557
4.Poetry Referred to in Nelson's
Letters....................................563 5.Minute of a Conversation
with the Prince Royal of Denmark on 3 April 1801
...........................................................567 6.The Taking
of the Swift Cutter: An Attempt to Trace the Documents Captured by
l'Espérance in 1804 ......................573 7.Documentation of Flow of
Letters in Chapter IV (1803-1805)581 Sources and Documents
..............................................................597 Index
...........................................................................................619