Jenny Lind

Her father, Arthur Duke Coleridge, was a lawyer with a love for opera. He decided not to pursue singing professionally because of the moral irregularities of theatrical life, but continued to sing for pleasure.

GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter

ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...

AA was active in society: she played the piano, attended the opera when Jenny Lind appeared, and went to the Great Exhibition.

In September 1881, ER was staying with Jenny Lind at a country house near Tonbridge. The next autumn she was in the country again, this time in Yarmouth.