5/30/2023 0 Comments Emma Hamilton by Quintin ColvilleFetherstonhaugh took Emma there as a mistress, but frequently ignored her in favour of drinking and hunting with his friends. She is said to have danced nude on his dining room table. Emma next worked as a model and dancer at the "Goddess of Health" for James Graham, a Scottish " quack" doctor.Īt 15, Emma met Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, who hired her for several months as hostess and entertainer at a lengthy stag party at Fetherstonhaugh's Uppark country estate in the South Downs. She also worked as a maid for actresses, among them Mary Robinson. She started to work for the Budd family in Chatham Place, Blackfriars, London, and began acting at the Drury Lane theatre in Covent Garden. Only a few months later she was unemployed again and moved to London in the autumn of 1777. With her grandmother struggling to make ends meet at the age of 60, and after Mary went to London in 1777, Emma began work, aged 12, as a maid at the Hawarden home of Honoratus Leigh Thomas, a surgeon working in Chester.
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