 | | 2018-04-28 04:57
From blog Finding Femme
Black and White and Lola Montez
Last blog post I talked a little about the different occupations of women on the goldfields. There’s one woman who often receives a disproportionate amount of attention from historians: Lola Montez. Lola was born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert in 1851. She eloped at 16, married a guy who she later parted ways from. When returning to the stage as a dancer in England she was booed off, even though having performed well, because she was a divorcee of Lieutenant Thomas James. Unwilling to live a boring life of social shame, she picked up her skirts and went elsewhere. She went to France for a bit. She met and had an affair with the composer Franz...
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