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Ellen Beach Yaw (1869 –1947) was an American coloratura soprano. Known as ‘Lark Ellen’ and ‘The Californian Nightingale’, her vocal range...

American artist James McNeill Whistler's magnificent portrait of Lady Valerie Meux is now in The Frick Collection in New York. Full...

“When the boy's blood began to flow, she (Lady Meux) was delighted, and considered the ordeal was making a man of him.” – Sir Leslie...

A kaleidoscope of visitors once passed through the doors of Theobald’s Park, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, the home of Lady Valerie Meux...

Would anyone like to hear about Lady Valerie Meux , a man named Skull, a haunted room and a £100 bet? And, of course, rats. Lots and lots...

By April 1910, Lady Valerie Susie Bruce Meux's health was in decline and, in early September, she went abroad for treatment for heart...

The Epsom Derby is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey every year. On Wednesday, 5 June 1901, the race was won by Volodyovski, the...

Let’s go back to 1906. The Green Room Book or Who's Who On The Stage: An Annual Biographical Record of the Dramatic Musical and Variety...

This is Baron De Kusel (Bey). In 1880, he met rich brewery heir Sir Henry Meux and his wife Lady Valerie Meux when they arrived on their...

It has taken me - what? - 20 years to acquire a copy of this book: Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the...