Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Shultz, Gladys Denny

Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale Gladys Denny Shultz - New York F. B. Lippincott Company 1962 - 345 p.

Includes Index




Merely Jenny --
The training of a star --
Second flight from home --
Year of humility --
Out into the great world --
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy --
"Their sufferings have become historic" --
A book is closed --
"This Jenny Lind business will ruin you!" --
Departure and arrival --
"Barnum is nowhere" --
Benevolent lady --
In the citadel of American culture --
The grand tour begins --
South to Havana --
Up the Mississippi --
The break with Barnum --
Jenny makes up her mind --
After America.

Jenny Lind was probably the most famous and adored personality of the nineteenth century, as noted for her kindness and charities as for her magnificent voice, but few of her admirers knew that behind the brilliant success of her adult years was a childhood of shocking loneliness and neglect.


Lind, Jenny 1820-1887


Singers Sweden --Biography.

927.8 Shu 15