Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Hamilton
- Country
- Canada
- State
- 21rh19@queensu.ca
- Affiliation
- Queen’s University
- Website URL
- https://www.queensu.ca/history/people/hamilton-rachel
- Keywords
- Monarchy, Gender, Mental Illness, Media, Empire, Victorian Britain
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a second year PhD candidate at Queen’s University working under the supervision of Dr. Sandra den Otter. My research interests include nineteenth-century Britain, the British monarchy, gender, print culture and media, and mental health. My current project studies more than 80 individuals who intruded on Queen Victoria and the British royal family’s privacy between 1837 and 1901, and whom we would today call “stalkers.” My works focuses on the British public’s belief in an entitlement to an accessible sovereign, and the ways intrusions on royal privacy engaged the police, palace authorities, the court of law, and the public in debates about where the boundaries between monarchial accessibility and royal privacy should be drawn. I also study the relationship between these intrusions and contemporary ideas about gender, respectability, mental illness, policing, and constitutional rights.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Government, Women
