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Nelson's Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documents (Hardcover)
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Nelson's Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documents (Hardcover)
Series: Navy Records Society Publications
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This critical edition of Admiral Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton
is to bring together the important letters of Nelson to Lady
Hamilton that have only been published in parts over the last 200
years. Only by bringing the letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton
together is it possible to assess their relationship and to present
certain insights into Nelson's personality that are not revealed in
his official correspondence. Thorough research into this side of
Nelson's personality and into the nature of his notorious and
unconventional relationship with Lady Hamilton has been hampered in
the past by a desire not to look too closely at Nelson's personal
morality. To a considerable extent their relationship was regarded
as a challenge to traditional gender roles and it indeed did not
conform to stereotypes that are usually attributed to men and women
in a heterosexual relationship. Lady Hamilton was so obviously
lacking in the subservience and passivity expected from women in
that era that authors over the course of time started to exclude
her in their accounts of the public sphere 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. A fresh
approach and a thorough discussion of this important and neglected
aspect not only of Nelson's life, but of gender history, demands
this exact and scholarly edition of the primary material, which
consists of about 400 letters that Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton
over the course of the last seven years of his life and about a
dozen letters of her to him that have survived.
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