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Biography: Mary Hamilton
No full textBiography of
Mary Hamilton,
Research Associate, Sr.,
Family Life Development Center (FLDC)
Digitization of the Mary Hamilton papers
Full text linkHeld at The John Rylands Library, Manchester, the Mary Hamilton Papers are a valuable, but still largely untapped resource for linguistic, cultural and literary studies focussing on the late eighteenth century. In her diaries Lady Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) documents daily life and friendships with intellectual figures of the time, for instance Horace Walpole and members of the Bluestocking circle, which included Elizabeth Montagu and Frances Burney. The archive also contains letters written to Lady Mary Hamilton by her family and other members of her social network.
The aim of this project is to prepare a digital edition of materials from the Mary Hamilton Papers with TEI-conformant XML mark-up, in which both a facsimile of the manuscripts and their transliterations (preserving the original spelling, punctuation and layout) will be displayed. In addition, the edition will offer rich meta-data and mark-up of places, persons and literary works, as well as normalized spellings, which will assist searches for linguistic features differing from Present-day English such as (non-)capitalisation (e.g. english, Breakfast) and past tense spellings like dress’d and staid.
Drawing on material from the Mary Hamilton Papers and the Corpus of Late Modern English Prose, we provide a case study to illustrate the usefulness of the Mary Hamilton Papers for the study of language change and social networks in the Late Modern period
Foreword: Mary Hamilton and her archive
Full text linkThis foreword provides core biographical information about Mary Hamilton and tells the story of the archive she left behind. It presents a brief overview of the scholarship addressing Mary Hamilton before the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023), and shows how the resulting digital edition has stimulated a new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary wave of research that is able to exploit the archive holistically. The academic contributions to the project are contextualized by acknowledging the immensely important labour of curators, archivists, photographers, and digital specialists, among others.<br/
The Mary Hamilton Papers (c. 1740-c.1850)
No full textThe Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740–c.1850). Compiled by David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis, Hannah Barker and Sophie Coulombeau, University of Manchester, 2019-2023. https://doi.org/10.48420/21687809 (v.x)The Mary Hamilton Papers. Prepared for indexing in CQPweb by Sebastian Hoffmann with the assistance of David Denison, 2022-2023, version 10 November 2023. CQPweb created and CQPweb server maintained by Andrew Hardie, UCREL, Lancaster University. https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk<br/
Introduction:The Mary Hamilton Papers Unlocked
Full text linkThis article offers an overview of the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023) — the impetus for this special issue — and positions it within the field of eighteenth-century studies. After outlining the project's genesis, we describe one of its core outputs, the digital edition of Mary Hamilton's archive, providing key technical information which is referenced in the articles that follow. We then summarize the contents of the special issue, reflect on answers to the project's original research questions that the authors provide, and highlight key synergies and themes
Correspondence in The Mary Hamilton Papers, indexed in CMIF
No full textAn XML file in Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF) that indexes the letters and notes in The Mary Hamilton Papers published online in Manchester Digital Collections. The CMIF file is not primarily intended for public use but is used by the correspSearch project to allow cross-project searching of edited correspondence.</p
The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850)
No full textThe Mary Hamilton Papers is a digital edition of ego-documents concerning Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), sub-governess to the Royal Court of George III and a member of the Bluestocking circle. The time-span covered by the collection (c.1740-c.1850) and the wide range of topics addressed (court and royal life, literary interests, women’s education, courtship and romance, social and cultural activities in the Bluestocking network, etc.) make this edition a unique data source to explore the intellectual and social world of Hamilton’s day and to investigate important questions about literary practices, letter-writing and everyday language in Georgian England, among others. Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) was a well-connected figure in royal, aristocratic and literary circles of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850) contains her private correspondence, diaries and travel journals, and other personal writing, together with manuscript materials pertaining to her husband, John Dickenson. Among the major figures represented in the collection are members of the royal family and other courtiers, members of Hamilton’s own family (including her uncle, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton) and prominent members of the Bluestocking circle, such as Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Burney, Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Vesey and Mary Delany. The contents come primarily from the eponymous archive held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester (over 2,600 items fully catalogued), with additional items from 11 other repositories in the UK and the US (nearly 600 items).[1] The materials from the JRRIL and Lancashire Archives have been digitised in-house at the JRRIL; others were digitised at the hosting libraries and then shared with us.The digital edition contains all of the above-listed 3,200-odd items in the form of high-resolution images (17,865 in total) with basic metadata: 3,042 pieces of private correspondence, 38 diaries and travel journals, and 122 other items, including manuscript books of various kinds, such as anthologies of verse and prose, memoranda and account books. Their date range is 1742-1853. The digital edition is publicly available in open access via Manchester Digital Collections (MDC), a repository which is image-centred and which offers a rich variety of visualisation tools. About half the items have been manually transcribed (c.894,000 words), namely 1,625 items of private correspondence, 17 diaries/journals by Hamilton and 51 other items. The date range of transcribed items is 1754-1837. The transcriptions are in XML format following TEI guidelines (P5), including a header containing metadata (e.g. author, date, summary) and a body containing the transcription of the text. The editorial schema is an XHTML document derived from an ODD file (One Document Does it All) created by David Denison. It covers, for instance, elements in the TEI header; structural elements of the text in the body; manuscript features like underlining, word spacing, additions and deletions; elements to do with editorial intervention, like footnotes and non-modern spelling or sic-forms; content-based mark-up such as person and place names, direct speech, foreign words; and customised tags for research analysis in reading practices and salutations in correspondence. The transcriptions can be read in MDC alongside the corresponding images in either diplomatic or normalised format. They have furthermore been tagged for part of speech (CLAWS7) and semantic categories (USAS), and this tagged version can be accessed and explored for general research purposes in CQPweb. CQPweb is a user-friendly interface best known for indexing and querying linguistic corpora, where users can search easily for words or strings of text in the normalised version or for XML elements coded in the transcriptions (e.g. place names, references to a particular individual or foreign words). The transcriptions are also freely available as plain-text files for non-profit use to anyone who registers for access via the project website. We have also constructed a ‘personography’ database containing all writers and addressees, as well as nearly everyone mentioned in the material that has been transcribed (nearly 2,600 individuals). The database is designed as an XML/TEI file with multiple fields, and will serve as the basis of an electronic person index containing links to external authority files such as VIAF. The Mary Hamilton Papers is indexed in correspSearch, an open-access web interface for searching across multiple scholarly editions of letters. A brief version history is given below (the DOI label ‘version 2’ is effectively fixed).version | items | transcribed | words2022-09-07 | 1664 | 1509 | c.822k2023-08-25 | 3201 | 1598 | c.875k2024-07-29 | 3201 | 1598 | c.875k2025-12-05 | 3202 | 1693 | c.894k How to cite the project:Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. Project team: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Manchester. Project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (2019-2023, Ref. AH/S007121/1), https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/. How to cite the edition:The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850). Compiled by David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis, Hannah Barker and Sophie Coulombeau, University of Manchester, 2019-2023. https://doi.org/10.48420/21687809 . [1] UK: Archives and Manuscripts, The British Library (London); Derbyshire Record Office, Derbyshire County Council (Matlock); Lancashire Archives, Lancashire City Council (Preston); Windsor Castle, The Royal Archives (Windsor). USA: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY); Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT); Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University (Stanford, CA); Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library (New York, NY); Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT); The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY). We are aware of additional material in private collections, e.g. those owned by the Anson family
"Interior Landscape": An Examination of the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and a Brief Collection of Unpremeditated Art
No full text(Statement of Responsibility) by Mary Hamilton Trimble(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 1972RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.Faculty Sponsor: Miller, Arthu
Editing the Mary Hamilton papers (c.1740 – c.1850)
Full text linkIntroduction. In recent decades, the number of digital editions and linguistic corpora containing ego-documents such as diaries and private letters has seen a significant increase, both in English and in other languages (see e.g. Denison 1994; Meurman-Solin 2007; Baillot 2013; van der Wal et al. 2021). Since ego-documents include relatively detailed socio-historical information about the individuals involved, as well as shedding light on the broader socio-economic, cultural and political landscape of the region and period in which they were created, they provide a wealth of data for scholars from various disciplines, most notably (historical) sociolinguistics, literary studies and history (see e.g. Elspaß et al. 2007; van der Wal and Rutten 2013). For research covering the Late Modern English period in particular, developments in the fields of corpus linguistics and the digital humanities have led to significant progress in compiling and making available such editions and corpora. There remains, however, a shortage of socio-demographically informed data sources based on original manuscript material (rather than printed editions), which offer essential insights into the authors’ individual language use, their social circles and cultural and literary practices more generally.
To address this, the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers project set out to create both a digital edition and a linguistic corpus of egodocuments related to Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) based on transcriptions of original manuscript material. [...]Arts and Humanities Research Council (Reino Unido) | Ref. AH/S007121/1Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431C 2021/5
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