Georgina Weldon: The Fearless Life of a Victorian Celebrity

A fascinating account of the life of one of the most famous women of the Victorian era.

For more than a decade in the second half of the nineteenth century Georgina Weldon (1837-1914) was one of the most famous women in England. Weldon was an exceptional self-publicist, intelligent and utterly convinced that she was always in the right. A semi-professional singer, she came to prominence as a friend of the composer Charles Gounod. Her husband's unsuccessful attempt to have her carried off to ...