Author: CLAYTON (Ellen Creathorne):
Title: Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of some of the most Celebrated Female Vocalists who have appeared on the lyric stage, from the earliest days of opera to the present time. To which is added A Chronological List of all the Operas that have been performed in Europe.
Description: London: Smith, Elder and Co...., 1863. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (222 x 148 mms.), pp. xvi, 379 [380 printer's imprint]; [iv], 452, engraved portraits of Elizabeth Billington as frontispiece to volume 1, contemporary half cream vellum, marbled boards,black and red morocco labels; lacking the other five portraits called for on the title-pages, which appear never to have been bound in, but an attractive set. Clayton (1834 - 1900) published her first book Notable Women in 1859, a rather hagiographic work, but this collection of lives of notable female singers is more straightforward, if often a little skimpy on biographical details. It was favourably reviewed and was her most successful until the publication of English Female Artists in 1876.

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