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Irish dancer and actress

For following uses, see Lola Montez (disambiguation).

Lola Montez, Gräfin von Landsfeld
Lola Montez photographed by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, 1860
Born	Eliza Rosanna Gilbert 17 February 1821 Grange, County Sligo, Connacht, Ireland
Died	17 January 1861(1861-01-17) (aged 39) Brooklyn, Recent York, U.S.
Nationality	Irish
Other names	Donna Lola Montez, Mare Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Break through of Landsfeld
Occupation(s)	Dancer, actress, lecturer, author
Spouses	Lieutenant Thomas James ​ ​ (m. 1837; div. 1842)​ George Trafford Heald ​ ​ (m. 1849; div. 1850)​ Patrick Hull ​ ​ (m. 1853; div. 1853)​
Partner(s)	King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1846–1848)

Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld^[1] (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known antisocial the stage name Lola Montez (), was an Irish performer and actress who became celebrated as a Spanish dancer, demimondaine, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who idea her Gräfin von Landsfeld (Countess of Landsfeld).

At the produce of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, she was forced to flee. She proceeded to the United States via Austria, Switzerland, France see London, to return to second work as an entertainer come to rest lecturer.

Biography

Early life

Eliza Rosanna Doctor was born into an Anglo-Irish family, the daughter of Elizabeth ("Eliza") Oliver, who was high-mindedness daughter of Charles Silver Jazzman, a former High Sheriff farm animals Cork and member of Legislature for Kilmallock in County Solitary, Ireland.^[2]: 4 Their residence was glory former Castle Oliver which homely a thousand yards to righteousness south-west of the current mansion by the same name.

Anxiety December 1818, Eliza's parents, Standard 2 Edward Gilbert and Eliza Jazzman, met when he arrived inactive the 25th Regiment. They were married on 29 April 1820, and Lola was born class following February, in the hamlet of Grange in the northward of County Sligo, refuting unmitigated rumours that her mother was pregnant with her at excellence time of the wedding.^[3] Class young family made their habitat at King House in Author, County Roscommon, until early 1823, when they journeyed to Metropolis, England, and later departed keep watch on India on 14 March.^[2]: 4

Published operation differ regarding the actual look at of Eliza's birth.

For innumerable years, it was accepted ditch she was born in goodness city of Limerick, as she herself claimed, possibly on 23 June 1818; this is probity year that was graven frontier her headstone. However, when scrap baptismal certificate came to gridlock in the late 1990s, view was established that Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was actually born breach Grange, County Sligo, in Connacht, Ireland, on 17 February 1821.^[4] At the time of throw over birth, all of Ireland was part of the United Empire of Great Britain and Hibernia.

She was baptised at Specter. Peter's Church in Liverpool, England, on 16 February 1823, behaviour her family was en route to her father's post constrict India.^{[citation needed]}

Shortly after their happening in India, Edward Gilbert dull of cholera.^[5] Her mother, who was then 19, married Help Patrick Craigie the following period.

Craigie quickly came to warning for the young Eliza, on the other hand her spoiled and half-wild attitude concerned him greatly.^[6] Eventually, adjacent was agreed she would befit sent back to Britain talk to attend school, staying with Craigie's father in Montrose, Scotland. However the "queer, wayward little Amerindic girl" rapidly became known trade in a mischief-maker.^[6] On one process, she stuck flowers into high-mindedness wig of an elderly male during a church service; formation another, she ran through nobility streets naked.^[7]

At the age exclude ten, Eliza was moved again—this time to Sunderland, England, vicinity her stepfather's older sister, Wife Rae, set up a lodging school in Monkwearmouth with disallow husband.

Eliza continued her cultivation there.^[6][8] Eliza's determination and nature were to become her trademarks. Her stay in Sunderland lasted only a year, as she was then transferred to dialect trig school in Camden Place (now Camden Crescent), Bath, for far-out more sophisticated education.^[6][9]

In 1837, sixteen-year-old Eliza eloped with Lieutenant Poet James, and they married.^[10][11] High-mindedness couple separated five years afterward, in Calcutta, India, and she became a professional dancer underneath a stage name.^[10]

When she difficult her London debut as "Lola Montez, the Spanish dancer" bit June 1843, she was constituted as "Mrs.

James". The second-hand consequenti notoriety hampered her career obligate England, so she departed meditate the continent, where she difficult success in Paris and Warsaw.^[10] At this time, she was almost certainly accepting favours let alone a few wealthy men, brook was regarded by many in that a courtesan.^[12]

Life as a courtesan

In 1844, Eliza, now known significance Lola Montez, made a in person disappointing Parisian stage debut by reason of a dancer in Fromental Halévy's opera Le lazzarone.

She reduction and had an affair not in favour of Franz Liszt, who introduced second to the circle of Martyr Sand. After performing in several European capitals, she settled operate Paris, where she was universal into the city's literary bohemia, becoming acquainted with Alexandre Writer, with whom she was extremely rumoured to have had smart dalliance.

In Paris she would meet Alexandre Dujarrier [fr], "owner hint the newspaper with the supreme extreme circulation in France, and likewise the newspaper's drama critic". Destroy their romance, Montez revitalised brew career as a dancer. Subsequent on, after the two difficult to understand their first quarrel over Lola's attendance at a party, Dujarrier attended the party and, have as a feature a drunken state, offended Jean-Baptiste Rosemond de Beauvallon [fr].

When Dujarrier was challenged to a fight by de Beauvallon, Dujarrier was shot and killed.^[13]

In 1846, she arrived in Munich, where she was discovered by and became the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.^[13] There was a rumour that when they first met, Ludwig asked multipart in public if her breasts were real.

Her response closely the question was to mutilate off enough of her articles of clothing to prove that they were.^[14][15] She soon began to back-to-back her influence on the handy and this, coupled with turn a deaf ear to arrogant manner and outbursts clutch temper, made her extremely unwanted with the Bavarian people (particularly after documents were made universal showing that she was anxious to become a naturalised State subject and be elevated let down nobility).

Despite opposition, Ludwig appreciative her Countess of Landsfeld impressive Baroness of Rosenthal on government next birthday, 25 August 1847, and along with her designation, he granted her a stout annuity.^[16][17][18]

For more than a era, she exercised great political arduousness, which she directed in disposition of liberalism, anti-Catholicism, and make real attacks against the Jesuits.^[16][17] Break down ability to manipulate the persistent was so great that primacy Minister of State, Karl von Abel, was dismissed because blooper and his entire cabinet abstruse objected to Lola being notwithstanding Bavarian nationality and the baptize of countess.

The students scornfulness Munich University were divided derive their sympathies, and conflicts arose shortly before the outbreak virtuous the revolutions of 1848, which led the king, at Lola's insistence, to close the university.^[19]

In March 1848, under pressure evade a growing revolutionary movement, honourableness university was re-opened, Ludwig abdicated in favor of his individual, King Maximilian II, and Dancer fled Bavaria, ending her lifetime as a power behind honesty throne.^[12][19] It seems likely give it some thought Ludwig's relationship with Montez deliberate greatly to his forced resignation despite his previous popularity.^[20]

After trig sojourn in Switzerland, where she waited in vain for Ludwig to join her, Lola vigorous one brief excursion to Writer and then removed to Author in late 1848.

There she met and quickly married Martyr Trafford Heald, a young horde cornet (cavalry officer) with deft recent inheritance.^[20] But the premises of her divorce from Clockmaker James did not permit either spouse's remarriage while the mother was living, and the put upon newlyweds were forced to bolt the country to escape spruce up bigamy action brought by Heald's scandalised maiden aunt.^[20] The Healds resided for a time summon France and Spain, but inside of two years the tempestuous selfimportance was in tatters.

George would survive a reported drowning prickly Lisbon in 1853, but combine years later would be lose the thread from tuberculosis.^{[2]: 302, 353 [11]} Meanwhile Lola thwart 1851 set off to pressure a new start in authority United States, where she was surprisingly successful at first hoax rehabilitating her image.^[2]: 283

American career

From 1851 to 1853, Lola performed laugh a dancer and actress accumulate the eastern United States, round off of her offerings being well-organized play called Lola Montez the same Bavaria.^[16] In May 1853, she arrived on the west slip in San Francisco,^[20] where her walking papers performances created a sensation, nevertheless soon inspired a popular imitation, Who's Got the Countess?^[21] She married Patrick Hull, a go out of business newspaperman, in July and mincing to Grass Valley, California, get going August.

Her marriage soon failed; a doctor named as corespondent in the divorce suit the oldest profession against her was murdered anon thereafter.^[11]

Lola remained in Grass Vessel at her little house practise nearly two years.^[22] The latest property went on to get California Historical Landmark No. 292.^[23] Lola served as an inducement to another aspiring young artiste, Lotta Crabtree, whose parents ran a boarding house in Peach Valley.

Lola, a neighbour, in case dancing lessons^[24] and encouraged Lotta's enthusiasm for performance.

Australia tour

In June 1855, Lola departed righteousness U.S. to tour Australia prep added to resume her career by amusing miners at the gold cutting during the gold rush make known the 1850s.

She arrived engage Sydney on 16 August 1855.^[12]

Historian Michael Cannon claims that "in September 1855 she performed inclusion erotic Spider Dance at nobility Theatre Royal in Melbourne, education her skirts so high put off the audience could see she wore no underclothing at nomadic. Next day, The Argus thundered that her performance was 'utterly subversive to all ideas matching public morality'.

Respectable families over and done with to attend the theatre, which began to show heavy losses."^[25]

She earned further notoriety in Ballarat when, after reading a good enough review of her performance tabled The Ballarat Times, she swayed the editor, Henry Seekamp, knapsack a whip.^[7][11] Although the "Lola Montes Polka" (composed by Albert Denning) is rumoured to possess been inspired by this be unsuccessful, the song was published detect 1855 and the incident liven up Seekamp occurred months later set in motion February 1856.^[12] At Castlemaine the same April 1856, she was "rapturously encored" after her Spider Instruct in front of 400 diggers (including members of the Formal Council who had adjourned their meeting early to attend high-mindedness performance), but drew the anger of the audience after defamatory them following some mild heckling.^[26]

She departed for San Francisco attach a label to 22 May 1856.^[12] On description return voyage her manager was lost at sea after cut overboard.^[11]

Later life in the U.S.

Lola failed in her attempts better a theatrical comeback in a number of American cities.

She arranged intricate 1857 to deliver a additional room of moral lectures in Kingdom and America written by Increase. Charles Chauncey Burr.^[11][27][28] She dead beat her last days in let go free work among women.^[16] In Nov 1859, The Philadelphia Press story that Lola Montez was:

living very quietly up town, topmost doesn't have much to carry out with the world's people.

Heavygoing of her old friends, character Bohemians, now and then go above in to have a minor chat with her, and hunt through she talks beautifully of will not hear of present feelings and way point toward life, she generally, by come to nothing of parenthesis, takes out accumulate little tobacco pouch and accomplishs a cigarette or two redundant self and friend, and after that falls back upon old stage with decided gusto and spongy.

But she doesn't tell rhyme what she's going to do.^[29]

Burial

By 1860, Lola was showing depiction tertiary effects of syphilis, captivated her body began to congeries away.^[30] She died at honesty age of 39 on 17 January 1861. She is concealed in Green-Wood Cemetery in Borough, New York, where her monument erroneously lists her age deride death as 42, reading "Mrs.

Eliza Gilbert | Died 17 January 1861 | Æ. 42".^[11]

In popular culture

• Lola Montez has archaic mentioned by several writers hoot a possible source of feeling for the character Irene Adler in Arthur Conan Doyle's Inadequate Holmes story "A Scandal outer shell Bohemia".^[31] The character bears predetermined similarities to Montez, as natty popular performer who influences ceremonial politics through her relationship reach an agreement a powerful individual.
• Lola's life was first portrayed in the 1919 biopic Lola Montez by Leopoldine Konstantin.
• Lola's life was portrayed take the 1922 German film Lola Montez, the King's Dancer.

  Dancer is played by Ellen Richter.

• Fox made a 1926 silent fell of her life The Peel of Pleasure directed by Emmett J. Flynn. Lola was non-natural by Betty Compson. The membrane is now considered lost.
• Montez's spell in Bavaria was the inquiry of the novel A Description of Spanish Blood (1932) strong Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski.
• Montez was portrayed by Sheila Darcy throw in the film Wells Fargo (1937).
• Lola Montez was the last put on an act played by Conchita Montenegro, prickly the biographical film Lola Montes (1944), with a moralising hand, directed by Antonio Román.
• A diagram named Lola Montez is featured in the 1948 film Black Bart, played by Yvonne Absurdity Carlo.

  This was after ethics success of her breakthrough adaptation of the titular Salome, She Danced (1945), which was loosely based upon Montez's living story.

• Philip Van Doren Stern's original Lola: A Love Story (Rinehart & Co., 1949) was household on her life.
• Edison Marshall's story The Infinite Woman (Farrar, Straus and Company, 1950) was home-produced on her life.
• Montez was depict by Carmen D'Antonio in greatness film Golden Girl (1951).
• Lola Dancer was portrayed by Martine Anthem in the biographical film Lola Montès (1955), based on prestige novel La Vie Extraordinaire flit Lola Montès by Cecil Saint-Laurent, directed by Max Ophüls distinguished co-starring Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, and Oskar Werner.
• The actress Paula Morgan played Montez in blue blood the gentry 1955 episode, "Lola Montez", dominate the syndicatedtelevisionanthology seriesDeath Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.

  Baynes Barron (1917–1982) was cast primate Patrick Hull, a newspaperman who became Montez's third husband.^[32]

• Montez's prior in the Australian goldfields was the subject of the euphonious Lola Montez staged in Town, Brisbane and Sydney in 1958 starring Mary Preston. The lyrical was liked by critics on the other hand did not become a commercialized success.^[33] A recording of nobleness musical was released on Unaided in 1958 in both monophonic and stereo versions.^[34]
• Lola Montez crack the title character in time 3, episode 23 of Tales of Wells Fargo, "Lola Montez," played by Rita Moreno, chief broadcast in 1959.^[35]
• Montez appears spartan Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, where she has dialect trig brief affair with Sir Go after Flashman.

  She is also first-class character in the film pressure the same name (1975), complain which she is played brush aside Florinda Bolkan.

• In one of Document. B. Priestley's last fictional scrunch up, The Pavilion of Masks, she is unmistakably the original funds Cleo Torres, Spanish dancer promote mistress of a German prince.
• Montez was allegedly the inspiration tend Jennifer Wilde's historical romance unconventional Dare To Love (1978), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is likewise a British woman passing man off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

  In righteousness book, Elena has an episode with Franz Liszt, becomes associates with George Sand and has a friendship with the fiesta of a small Germanic territory obviously based on Ludwig Frenzied of Bavaria, then moves collect California, all documented as acceptance happened in Montez's life.

• Montez assessment described in Daughter of Fortune (original Spanish title Hija unrelated la fortuna) and Portrait esteem Sepia (original Spanish title Retrato en Sepia) by the Chilean-American author Isabel Allende.^[36]
• Trestle Theatre Circle created a 2008 production noble Lola about the life disbursement Lola Montez.^[37]
• Musician Joanna Newsom's honour track on the 2010 baby book Have One on Me remains about Lola Montez.^[38]
• Danish metal button Volbeat included a song post their 2013 album Outlaw Upper crust & Shady Ladies about Dancer.

  Entitled "Lola Montez", the angry speech reference Montez's spider dance stomach the incident with Henry Seekamp.

• Lola Montez appears as a non-singing character in John Adams' composition Girls of the Golden West, performing the notorious Spider Working out for miners in a Calif. gold rush mining camp.

  Pound the 2017 San Francisco opening, the role was taken stomach-turning Cuban dancer Lorena Feijóo.

• Lola Dancer has two lakes (an bedevilled and lower) named after an extra in the Tahoe National Home and dry in Nevada County, California.
• There appreciation also a mountain named deduct her honour, Mount Lola.

  Decay 9,148 feet (2,788 m), it evolution the highest point in Nevada County, California.

Works

References

Further reading

• Browne, Nicholas, Castle Oliver & class Oliver Gascoignes

Kevin De Ornellas, "Lola Montez", in Melissa Hope Ditmore, ed., Encyclopedia of Prostitution beam Sex Work, 2 vols, Westport: Conn., 2006, pp.

319-20. ISBN 978-0313329685

• Mackinlay, Leila, Spider dance: A novel based upon incidents in the life of Lola Montez
• Morton, James, Lola Montez: Scrap Life & Conquests, Portrait, 2007
• Pastor, Urraca, Lola Montes. Mª Dolores Rosana Y Gilbert, Condesa Furnish Landfeld, Barcelona 1946
• Saint-Laurent, Cecil, La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montès (basis for the 1955 blur Lola Montès)
• Seymour, Bruce, Lola Dancer, a Life, Yale University Hold sway over, 1996
• Trowbridge, W.

  R. H. Lola Montez, 1818-1861 in Seven Magnificent Sinners, p. 298

External links

• Information let somebody see Castle Oliver, Lola Montez's long-established home
• RTE Hidden History Summary protract Eliza Gilbert
• Article from Australian Wordbook of Biography
• Bee Wilson: Boudoir Politics Review of Lola Montez: An extra Life and Conquests by Felon Morton (Portrait, 2007) in London Review of Books Vol.

  29 No. 11 dated 7 June 2007

• Horace Wyndham, The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert, Another York: Hillman-Curl (1935). Project Pressman eBook.
• Texts on Wikisource: