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V&A · Poor Maria And The Bourbonnais Shepherd – When Literature Came Into Fashion

Share Jewellery inspired by books and films is easy to find today – from a copy of the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and jewels inspired by Game of Thrones, to various Harry Potter inspired necklaces, earrings and bracelets. The literary enthusiast has plenty to choose from. Readers in the 18th century – the period when the novel began its unstoppable rise – also wanted to show their love of favourite characters whilst demonstrating their sensibility and involvement in popular culture. The novels of the Irish writer Laurence Sterne, now best remembered for Tristram Shandy, were enormously popular across Europe. Scenes from his books were reproduced in paintings and engravings, on decorated snuff boxes and fans, and were made into cameos for brooches, buckles, rings and earrings.

Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl new smallpox vaccine

He is best remembered as the one-armed hero who defeated Napoleon, rewrote the rules of naval warfare and died at sea, in battle, onboard HMS Victory. Now, the “chance discovery” of a 220-year-old love letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton, his mistress, reveals how open-minded and ahead of his time the formidable captain was about a radical new scientific breakthrough: the smallpox vaccine. In the letter, dated July 1801,.

Admiral Nelson letter reveals how he urged mistress to vaccinate their daughter against smallpox

A newly unearthed letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton has revealed how he urged her to give their infant daughter the recently developed smallpox vaccine  The 1801 letter, discovered in the archives at the National Maritime Museum, makes no mention of a dangerous mission to France Nelson was due to make, but instead focuses on the health of his daughter, Horatia. It was written just three years after Edward Jenner discovered milkmaids who developed cowpox through working close to the animals seemed to be protected from smallpox, the human form of the disease. In a letter to Lady Hamilton, Admiral Nelson wrote: The child is only feverish for two days; and only a slight inflammation of the arm takes place, instead of being all over scabs.  

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