Famous Girls Who Have Become Illustrious Women by John Maw Darton details from sapnaonline

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 282 JENNY LIND. WE remember this lady best by her maiden name: the more formal one of Madame Groldschmidt is not and cannot be so familiar to English readers as Jenny Lind, truly a household name, not less loved than respected. There have been singers who have possessed gifts scarcely less than those owned by Jenny Lind, but their lives presented fewer incidents of cherished remembrance: they are specially known for their gifts--for their extraordinary capacity of voice. Not so Jenny Lind. Wonderful as her powers confessedly are--greater than the greatest--yet her name is cherished by the English nation in connection with kindly deeds, and with works of charity and love. She rejoiced in the possession of her wonderful powers because they enabled her to dispense blessings, to build institutions for healing the sick, to aid the distressed, and to create joy and gladness where sadness and sorrow before had been. These deeds are more treasured remembrances, and find a firmer lodgment in the heart, than the most extraordinary vocal powers; the latter, for the moment, fill the ear with astonishment, but the former live to spread a sweet influence when the giver has departed to the final resting-place. This excellent lady was born in the city of Stockholm, in the parish of St. Clara, October 21st, 1821. Her father wasamember of the legal profession, and her mother for many years kept a boarding-school for girls. By a former marriage she had a daughter, who died before reaching adult age. Jenny Lind is her only child by second marriage. Both parents are Protestants and members of churches in Stockholm. Jenny Lind at the proper time made her first communion in the Lutheran Church, the National Church of Sweden and of all other Scandinavian countries. She remains, as she ...