Mary Hamilton

Versions of the ballad have been recorded by a number of artists, including Joan Baez, The Corries, and Angelo Branduardi.

She married her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley in July 1565, and he was murdered 20 months later, when he was king of Scots and joint ruler with Mary.

[4] Mary's head was preserved and displayed in the Kunstkamera,[citation needed] a palace holding natural and scientific "curiosities".

At that time, Charles Wogan was in Russia on a mission for James Francis Edward Stuart, and through him news of the incident might have reached Scotland.

James Madison Carpenter recorded several versions in Scotland in the early 1930s, which can be heard online via the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

[16] Jean Ritchie and her sister Edna were filmed in their hometown of Viper, Kentucky performing a rendition passed down through their family.

The six chapters of the essay follow Mary Beton's walks through Oxbridge grounds and London streets, and her mental explorations of the history of women and fiction.

It is partially through her conversations with Seton that Beton raises questions about the relationship between financial wealth and the opportunities for female education.

Speaking of Mary Seton's mother, the narrator states, "If she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease tonight and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography.

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan adapted the melody from "Mary Hamilton" for his 1963 song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll".

The song recounts the story of black woman who died after being struck with a cane by William Zantzinger, a young white man who came from a wealthy family and who was ultimately sentenced to six months in prison for his crime.