Jenny Lind the Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind was probably the most famous and adored personality of the nineteenth century, as noted for her kindness and charities as for her magnificent voice, but few of her admirers knew that behind the brilliant success of her adult years was a childhood of shocking loneliness and neglect.... [F]or the first time, the complete story of Jenny... more » Lind's American tour under the management of the great P.T. Barnum is told.... Thousands of American flocked to hear the Swedish Nightingale sing, tickets sold for incredible prices, orchestras and singing societies sprang up along her route, and a mania for Jenny Lind products, from hairpins to beds, swept the populace. In turn, the singer found a greater happiness than all Euruope had been able to give her, for it was here that she, having given up all hope of domestic happiness, fell in love and was married.« less