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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Eminent women of the drama. (search)
ian, French, German, and Spanish. At the age of sixteen--in 1855-she made her first public appearance in opera, in the city of Malta. Amina, in Sonnambula, --a customary role of operatic debutantes,--was the character she then assumed; and therein she made a marked and promising success. The unusual power and compass of her voice, and the felicitous method of her execution, speedily became themes of praise with European connoisseurs of music. At Naples, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Madrid, aid Lisbon, her first success was repeated and increased. So, for two years, she prospered, on the continent of Europe, receiving the applause of the people, the cordial favor of musical criticism, and the compliments and honorary gifts of nobles and of monarchs. In 1857 she made her debut in London, in the same company with Ronconi, Gardoni, and Tagliafico, in I Puritani, and thereafter took a high place in the favor of the British public. Her career in England lasted nine years; in the course of w