Lola Montez, street preaching, daguerreian artists, rivalry from other newsboys who are as desperate as Ready to earn money for their families and a most amazing balloon flight all serve to further understanding for some of the picturesque past of one of the most fascinating cities in our country.
This was only
Lola Montez's most celebrated role and it has caused numerous biographers to try to tell her story, but only Mr Seymour has had the patience to unravel the facts.
Twelve months ago, Mr Bottom explained how the daughter of a young Irish army officer, who had adopted the name
Lola Montez when she trained as a Spanish dancer, lived on her beauty and wits, inveigling her way into high society across Europe, after being widowed at the age of 20.
She was, in fact, born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, in County Sligo, in 1821, but, as an adult, she reinvented herself as
Lola Montez and went on to perform throughout the world, seducing many wealthy and influential men on the way, including Franz Liszt and King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
The mother-of-two entertained the audience - mainly older women - with tales of famous royal mistresses Nell Gwyn,
Lola Montez, Marie Waleska, Madame de Pompadour and Lillie Langtry.
Each town--about 5 miles apart on State Highway 49/20--has been dealt a classic, still-functioning Victorian hotel and appealing B & Bs, and residents support adventuresome restaurants, so sojourners can expect blandishments Victorian traveler
Lola Montez herself might have envied.
* 'The Insatiable
Lola Montez' was the intriguing title of a talk given by Huddersfield Probus Club chairman Keith Bottom to a meeting of Honley Probus Club in the community centre.
One year later, Manon presented herself in performance as a masked wild animal behind massive bars, exhibited and chained in a luminous cage, dominant and yet herself dominated by a voyeurism that both sides have to endure: Das Ende der
Lola Montez (The End of
Lola Montez), 1975/2006, evokes the lover of Ludwig I of Bavaria, a woman who gained great political influence, then was ostracized, and finally was reduced to displaying herself as a "femme fatale" in a circus.
FRINGE: Irish writer Sylvia Cullen, author of Bedazzled, spotlights one of the 19th Century's most notorious women in The Legend of
Lola Montez. It follows Lola around the globe on a comic ego trip, reflecting obsession with fame and celebrity culture.
5.30pm Princess Michael of Kent - The royal author covers women who have become courtesans from Madame de Pompadour to
Lola Montez.
Grass Valley-the richest mine town Once the richest of the northern mine towns, Grass Valley today is one of the fastest-growing foothill cities, though some still think of it only as the home of
Lola Montez and Lotta Crabtree (gold rush entertainers) and Cornish pasties (meat and potato turnovers).
Princess Michael of Kent is plugging her tome Cupid and the King - an account of royal bits on the side from 'the elegant Madame de Pompadour to the outrageous
Lola Montez' - on Friday, June 2.