Note 138 — Chapter I · WHY DID JENNY LIND LEAVE THE STAGE?

Let any one who ever knew Jenny Lind, turn to a book such as ‘The Mapleson Memoirs’ (London 1888); let him learn there, in its rollicking gossip, the characters, the conditions, with which theatrical management concerns itself: and his chief wonder will, surely, be how she tolerated such an environment for a single day.