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Lind, Jenny
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Otto Goldschmidt), the Swedish nightingale, born at Stockholm; giving evidence of her power of song in childhood, she was put under a master at nine; too soon put to practise in public, her voice at twelve showed signs of contracting, but after four years recovered its full power, when, appearing as Alice in "Robert le Diable," the effect was electric; henceforth her fame was established, and followed her over the world; in 1844 she made a round of the chief cities of Germany; made her first appearance in London in 1847, and visited New York in 1851, where she married, and then left the stage for good, to appear only now and again at intervals for some charitable object; she was plain looking, and a woman of great simplicity both in manners and ways of thinking (1821-1882).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lind, Jenny'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lind-jenny.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
