"JOHN COMPANY" TROOPS ON THE MARCH IN INDIA
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, HAYMARKET, WHERE LOLA MONTEZ MADE HER DÉBUT
BENJAMIN LUMLEY, LESSEE OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
LOLA MONTEZ, "SPANISH DANCER." DÉBUT AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
VISCOUNT RANELAGH, WHO ORGANISED A CABAL AGAINST LOLA MONTEZ
FANNY ELSSLER, PREDECESSOR OF LOLA MONTEZ IN PARIS
PORTE ST. MARTIN THEATRE, PARIS, WHERE LOLA WAS A "FLOP"
SUPPER-PARTY AT LES FRÈRES PROVENÇAUX. FIRST ACT IN A TRAGEDY
RESIDENZ PALACE, MUNICH, IN 1848. RESIDENCE OF LUDWIG I.
"COMMAND" PORTRAIT. IN THE "GALLERY OF BEAUTIES," MUNICH
LOLA MONTEZ IN CARICATURE. "LOLA ON THE ALLEMANNEN HOUND"
BERRYMEAD PRIORY, ACTON, WHERE LOLA MONTEZ LIVED WITH CORNET HEALD
A "BELLE OF THE BOULEVARDS." LOLA MONTEZ IN PARIS
THE "SPIDER DANCE." CAUSE OF MUCH CRITICISM
LOLA MONTEZ IN "LOLA IN BAVARIA." A "PLAY WITH A PURPOSE"
LOLA AS A LECTURER. FROM STAGE TO PLATFORM
LOLA MONTEZ IN MIDDLE LIFE. A CHARACTERISTIC POSE
"LECTURES AND LIFE." FROM STAGE TO PLATFORM
COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD. A FAVOURITE PORTRAIT
GRAVE OF LOLA MONTEZ, IN GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY, NEW YORK
In a tearful column, headed "Necrology of the Year," a mid-Victorian obituarist wrote thus of a woman figuring therein:
This was one who, notwithstanding her evil ways, had a share in some public transactions too remarkable to allow her name to be omitted from the list of celebrated persons deceased in the year 1861.
Born of an English or Irish family of respectable rank, at a very early age the unhappy girl was found to be possessed of the fatal gift of beauty. She appeared for a short time on the stage as a dancer (for which degradation her sorrowing relatives put on mourning, and issued undertakers' cards to signify that she was now dead to them) and then blazed forth as the most notorious Paphian in Europe.
Were this all, these columns would not have included her name. But she exhibited some very remarkable qualities. The natural powers of her mind were considerable. She had a strong will, and a certain grasp of circumstances. Her disposition was generous, and her sympathies very large. These qualities raised the courtesan to a singular position. She became a political influence; and exercised a fascination over sovereigns and ministers more widely extended than has perhaps been possessed by any other member of the _demi-monde_. She ruled a kingdom; and ruled it, moreover, with dignity and wisdom and ability. The political Hypatia, however, was sacrificed to the rabble. Her power was gone, and she could hope no more from the flattery of statesmen. She became an adventuress of an inferior class. Her intrigues, her duels, and her horse-whippings made her for a time a notoriety in London, Paris, and America.