Anna Jamieson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Jamieson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamieson |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIESON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0670-5813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health, and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers
This article examines how space, sociability, and letter‐writing are conceptualised as self‐care strategies by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Building on a recent proliferation of interest in histories of mental health and emotions, it explores familiar correspondence written to Mary Hamilton between 1776 and 1809 by Louisa Murray (Lady Stormont), Jane Hamilton Holman, and Lady Mary Webb, which addresses low spirits, nervousness, …
The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers
This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus…
To Be so Like a Bird in a Cage: Touch, Comfort and Connecting With the Eighteenth-Century Madhouse
Souvenirs of a Scandal: Commemorating the Margaret Nicholson Affair
This article explores a selection of visual and material commemorations of the Margaret Nicholson affair of 1786. Contextualizing the response to the affair within a broader story of spectacle and sensibility, it demonstrates that the cultural power and profusion of Nicholson, the would‐be assassin of King George III, were driven by her contravention of expectations surrounding gender, class, and madness. Along with visual analysis of surviving r…
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Souvenirs of a Scandal: Commemorating the Margaret Nicholson Affair
This article explores a selection of visual and material commemorations of the Margaret Nicholson affair of 1786. Contextualizing the response to the affair within a broader story of spectacle and sensibility, it demonstrates that the cultural power and profusion of Nicholson, the would‐be assassin of King George III, were driven by her contravention of expectations surrounding gender, class, and madness. Along with visual analysis of surviving r…
The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers
This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus…
To Be so Like a Bird in a Cage: Touch, Comfort and Connecting With the Eighteenth-Century Madhouse
‘I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health, and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers
This article examines how space, sociability, and letter‐writing are conceptualised as self‐care strategies by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Building on a recent proliferation of interest in histories of mental health and emotions, it explores familiar correspondence written to Mary Hamilton between 1776 and 1809 by Louisa Murray (Lady Stormont), Jane Hamilton Holman, and Lady Mary Webb, which addresses low spirits, nervousness, …
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)