Opera singer; born in
Sumterville, S. C., July 12, 1842; removed to New York in 1856, and there received her musical education.
She made her first appearance in New York as Gilda, in
Rigoletto, in the Academy of Music, in 1861, and in
London in Her Majesty's Theatre in 1867.
She made tours through the
United States from 1868 till her reappearance in
London in May, 1872.
Returning to the
United States she sang in Italian opera for a season; organized an English opera company; then an Italian opera company (1876); subsequently appeared in concert only; reappeared in opera in
Europe in 1879-83; later made a tour of the
United States with a company of her own; and, marrying her manager,
Carl Strakosch, in 1887, retired to private life.
