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Rene Kraus. Young Lady Randolph
Young Lady Randolph
Table of Contents
Part One: JENNIE
CHAPTER I Family Chronicle
CHAPTER II Newport and the Civil War
CHAPTER III Second Empire
CHAPTER IV Escape from Paris
CHAPTER V The Refugees. and Herr von Bismarck
CHAPTER VI The Way to England
Part Two: LADY RANDOLPH
CHAPTER VII Conquest of London
CHAPTER VIII Adventures in Ireland
CHAPTER IX The Fourth Party
CHAPTER X Shadows
CHAPTER XI The Primrose League
CHAPTER XII House Beautiful
CHAPTER XIII Last Stretch Uphill
CHAPTER XIV Dinner with Victoria
CHAPTER XV I’ve Danced with the Prince
CHAPTER XVI Hybris
CHAPTER XVII Rain and Sunshine
CHAPTER XVIII Castles in Spain
CHAPTER XIX Early Autumn
CHAPTER XX Farewell to Politics
CHAPTER XXI Journey Into Death
CHAPTER XXII Indian Summer
CHAPTER XXIII American Amazon
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René Kraus
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Adelina Patti was six years older than Jennie. At the age of ten, she had been the craze of New York. Her debut on September 22, 1853, at a concert at the Tripler Hall had caused a sensation. Overnight she became the “nightingale.” A year later, when the Jeromes came back to America, they soon heard the nightingale’s song. By that time La Patti had already joined the distinguished company of Mmes. Sontag, Staffanone, and Salvi who graced Signer Maretzek’s Italian stagione at Castle Garden.
As the years went on, Leonard Jerome’s zest for the opera increased. Now he went repeatedly alone to the evening performances. He was still convinced that he was admiring the image of his child on the stage. But when Adelina had grown to the respectable age of fourteen—and Jennie was eight—the young prima donna received for the first time an enormous bouquet in her dressing room, sent by an unknown admirer. La Patti waved and kissed the orchids, a comparatively new and very chic flower, just before the last curtain. She received the unknown admirer after the show. She was a little exhausted and terribly thirsty. A glass of champagne at Delmonico’s? Why not? Mammina cara would enjoy it. Unmindful of her increasing bulk, La Patti’s mother enjoyed, indeed, a twelve-course dinner. Then Mr. Jerome squired the ladies home. He was proud of his four-in-hand, one of the first in New York. But La Patti found the carriage a little too conspicuous. In view of her tender age, which was constantly stressed by mammina, she preferred, she said, a modish little barouche with ponies.
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