On the wall of the south transept of Westminster Abbey is a white Sicilian marble monument to the "Swedish nightingale" Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt. The monument is by C.B. Birch and was unveiled on 20th ...

Stephen Foster might have missed opera singer Jenny Lind's performance in Pittsburgh in the spring of 1851, but he couldn't have missed the impact of the so-called "Swedish Nightingale" on the ...