ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LOLA MONTEZ
Copyright Bruce Seymour
MANUSCRIPTS OF LOLA MONTEZ
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to a Mr. Evans, signed "E" saying that he will get his money back but
things are tight for her right now, n.d. (“1842” in pencil by unknown hand), n.p.;
Harvard Theatre Collection
I feel quite sure that this is LM’s handwriting, and the fact it is signed “E” would
indicate that the 1842 date assigned to it could very well be true since at that time she was
still Eliza and not Lola Montez. That would make this the oldest MS from her hand. See the
microfilm in this collection and Volume 2L.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter in French, nd, np, requesting return of portrait (Paris, early 1844?)
Bancroft Library
My guess is that this letter dates from early in LM’s time in Paris, but that is purely
an educated guess. See Volume 4-O.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter in French, 19 August [1844?] 24 Rue de la Victoire, requesting the
release to her free from of customs duties of lithographic portraits of her from Berlin,
Yale Univeristy.
This probably dates from the summer of 1844, when LM is known to have been
practicing dance in the rue de la Victoire. I am uncertain just what lithographic portrait she
might have been receiving from Berlin. See Volume 4Q.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter in French to Fiorentino, n.d. (1845?), n.p. (Paris?), asking him to
come and see her today, "out of sight, out of mind”; last reported sold at Marburg, 1-2
June 76, current whereabouts unknown
Montez, Lola: Letter to unknown, nd, Paris?; Lilly Libary,Indiana University
See Volume 4-P. Rather insignificant.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to Fiorentino, n.d. (May 45?), (Paris?), saying that she is going to be
leaving for Spa and Mons next Monday; Prince Sforza? is due back on the 8th, full of
rage and revenge; Harvard Theatre Collection
Based on the fact that LM was seen in Spa in June 1845, my guess is that this note
dates from that year. See the microfilm in this collection and Volume 5P.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to “Monsieur le Commissaire” dated 30 Mai 1846, 95 rue Neuf des
Mathurins, Paris; Stadt/Uni Bibliothek, Frankfurt/M
The precise date and return address are very unusual on an LM letter. She is
complaining here about being harassed by one Adele Bassolet, otherwise unknown to me.
My guess is that it had something to do with debts. See Volume 8-D.
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Montez, Lola: ASLetter to proprietress of the Hotel de Suede, Brussels; Homburg, 18[?]
August 46; Harry Ransom Center, U of Texas at Austin
This is an important letter because it confirms LM’s affair with Leigh and gives some
precision to her whereabouts in the early summer of 1846.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to “Monsieur Du Bois, Secretaire de la legation de Holland”, nd, np;
Yale University Library, Theatrical Manuscripts.
She tells Du Bois she is leaving suddenly for Stuttgart at Peel’s invitation. This letter
was certainly written at Homburg late in August or early September 1846, and it establishes
that she knew Peel before she went to Stuttgart and went there to join him at his invitation.
See Volume 8-E.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter of 1846, 1 1/2 pages to "Mon Penny (Panny?)"; sold by Hartung and
Karl, München, 2-3 Nov 77, current whereabouts unknown.
I have not seen this letter, but it is interesting that the place where she was staying in
London in 1859 when she wrote the letter to Miss Mitchell now in the NYPL was owned by
someone named Penny.
Montez, Lola: ASNote in French to Baron von Frays requesting return of her music for a
performance in Augsburg; 22 Oct 46: California Historical Society, San Francisco,
MS
1489
This letter is important in showing that LM at this point had not yet abandoned the
stage and was arranging an engagement in Augsburg. But see the letter immediately below.
Montez, Lola: Note to Mons. Lippert of Augsburg, says she can't dance, but would he like
tickets to Jenny Lind performance; 22 Oct 46, Munich; reference in the Harvard
Theatre Collection to the sale of this item at auction, currrent whereabouts unknown
The fact LM is cancelling her performance in Augsburg the same day she wrote to
Frays to get her music indicates to me that something had happened in the course of the day
to tell her she didn’t need to continue her theatrical career. My guess is that during the
portrait sitting at Stieler’s that day Ludwig had convinced her that he didn’t want her to
leave Munich, and I suspect it was at this time that she responded with the phrase he later
quoted back to her, “No puedo dejar Munic.”
Montez, Lola: Six-page letter of 5 December 1846 to Pier-Ange Fiorentino; last sold at
auction in 1975; current whereabouts unknown. For the text, see Volume 8M.
Montez, Lola: Note in French to Ambroise (Havard?, proprietor of Der goldene Hirsch Hotel
in Munich) begging him to forgive the girl who cleans her room; last reported sold at
Marburg, 22-23 March 83; current whereabouts unknown
Montez, Lola: A note to Moritz Saphir saying she'll keep her word; 27 Mar 47, Munich;
Boston Public Library.
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Valentin in his history of the 1848 revolutions says that Saphir waited to call on LM
until he had almost finished his visit to Munich so that he would not be ostracized. See
Volume 9-L.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to the director of Le Dimanche (Journal du Dimanche), Munich, 31
March 1847, sending him something (probably her circular biographical letter), telling
him to use her portrait from “Le London Illustration,” and stating in response to his
inquiry that she has nothing to say to what Mme. Azam may be saying because their
principles do not conform and she is far above such pettiness.
This is the letter that was reproduced in facsimile in the original edition of Lola
Montè. Aventures de la célèbre danseuse, raconnté par lui-même. It is now in the collection
of the Bibliothèque National, Nouvelles Acquisitions Française 1305 LM No. 289.
Montez, Lola: Letter to La Presse, 31 March 47; Ransom Center, U of Texas at Austin
This is one of the many nearly identical letters of this date in which LM tried to settle
rumors about her origins.
Montez, Lola: Letter in French to Alexandre Dumas, Munich, 14 April 1847, encouraging
him to come to Munich to meet King Ludwig. Reported in the collection of Simone
André-Maurois.
Part of the text of this letter is reported in “Les Trois Dumas” by André Maurois,
page 232. See Volume 9-M for a copy of this page. The letter appears to indicate that not
only was LM not particularly intimate with Dumas but that she didn’t know him particularly
well at all, although the text indicates that she was replying to a letter Dumas had written to
her.
Montez, Lola: Letter in English to an unknown gentleman thanking him for his help “the
other night when I was so ill,” 10 April 1847: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow
See microfilm in this collection.
Montez, Lola: Letter to unknown addresse inviting him to visit her at once to hear something
urgent, nd, np, embossed stationery, "Tout a vous, Lola;" sold in Geneva, 1991;
current whereabouts unknown
Montez, Lola: Note to Baron ? in French concerning return of passport; signed “Landsfeld”;
nd, np; in the Bancroft Library
The date and addressee of this note are uncertain. The name of the baron is
indecipherable. Someone has written on the back in pencil that she is requesting a passport
to go to Munich to see the king. It is possible that this dates from after LM’s departure from
Munich, but the uncharacteristic form of signature makes me think that it was written very
shortly after she became a countess. LM very quickly adopted “Marie de Landsfeld” as her
signature, and this is the only surviving signature as simply “Landsfeld.” My guess is that
what she is requesting here is an internal Bavarian passport to make the trip to Leoni and
other places she took in September 1847, but this is just a guess.
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Montez, Lola: ASLetter of 14 September 1847, telling unknown man she declines to provide
biographical information, not wishing publicity; signed “Comtesse de Landsfeld.”
Harvard Theatre Collection.
One of the few instances of LM shunning publicity. See Volume 9R.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter of 25 Sept 47, Munich, to unknown man saying she will do what she
can to help his protegée; sold at US auction in 1978; current whereabouts unknown
Montez, Lola: Letter of 25 Sept 47 (Munich) to attorney in Paris concerning debt for riding
habit purchased by Leigh in spring of 46; facsimile in Mirecourt’s book.
The letter is not in LM’s hand but the signature is hers. See Volume 33-G.
Montez, Lola: Letter of 5 December 1847 to Mr. Meade, presenting him with a cast of her
foot. This manuscript letter is tipped into the only known copy of the “Extra
Illustrated Edition of A Reply to the Marquis de Papon’s....,” in the Libraries of the
Pennsylvania State Universities
Perhaps this Mr. Meade was one of the Meade Brothers, photographers of NYC.
Montez, Lola: Note in French to hotel manager asking him to tell bearer the whereabouts of
Peißner; dated "Bearne, 2 Mars 1848"; current whereabouts unknown.
A facsimile is in Fuchs, Volume 41, page 157
Montez, Lola: Letter in French to Eduard von Metzger, 18 March 1848, re sale of house;
Harvard, Houghton Library
This is the letter to Metzger that was enclosed in LM’s letter to King Ludwig of the
same day from Frankfurt.
Montez, Lola: Letter postmarked Berne, 30 March 48 to Carl Diehl, Gasthofler in Plauen
Betr. Besorgung eines Briefes; Hannover Stadtarchiv (not holographic)
This is a cover letter in German, not in LM’s hand, enclosing a letter to Peißner. The
letter to Peißner is lost, probably destroyed.
Montez, Lola: Note in French to Hurt-Binet, nd, np; NYPL Dance Collection at Lincoln
Center
The transcript I saw at the library was very inaccurate, and I told them that. The
note indicates she is unwell and will not be able to visit him as planned. It is undated.
Montez, Lola: Letter to Henry Vane concerning flight of Heald; Cadiz, 31 December 1849, in
the Ransom Center, U of Texas, Austin
This note is so rough it might actually be a draft, but I doubt LM was in the habit of
writing drafts. It makes some important connections: to Vane, to Hudson, to Mme. Leger,to
Judge Hardwick, and gives some details about Heald’s friend, the Rev. Newbold.
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Montez, Lola: Letter to Mme. Jacquand, n.d., n.p. (Paris), saying that she was sorry that she
didn't find Mme. J at home but that she was able to show her lovely house and studio
to her English friend; sold at Marburg, 10 Apr 1959, whereabouts unknown.
Montez, Lola: Note to Doctor D? asking him to come and saying she is feeling better; not in
her hand or signature; signed "M. de Landsfeld"; Paris, 5 Nov 50; in the Bancroft
collection
None of this note is in LM’s hand, but it appears to be authentic. I cannot make out
the addressee’s name.
Montez, Lola: Letter to Mr. Campbell, n.d., n.p., saying she is so completely indisposed that
she will not be able to attend the Hippodrome in his company; sold at Marburg, 8 Nov
57, whereabouts unknown.
Varnhagen’s diary reports an article in the Parisian press about Savile Morton
throwning a Mr. Campbell down LM’s stairs inDecember 1857.
Montez, Lola: Letter to historian, (Louis Blanc?) 10 March 51: "J'ai lu avec le plus grand
interet votre histoire de la revolution francaise"; sold at Marburg, 1972, whereabouts
unknown.
Montez, Lola: Poem in French, written on the eve of her return to the theater; dated "Paris, 15
Sept 51" and signed "Marie de Landsfeld, Lola Montez"; location unknown;
reproduced in Wilmes & Prezelin, facing page 241
See Volume 24-G. LM apparently adopted this as an album inscription, and several
different copies exist. This in Wilmes & Prezelin comes from a manuscript in the
Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris. The Houghton Library at Harvard has the same poem in
LM’s hand in an autograph album.
Montez, Lola: Note of 24 Sept 51 (Brussels) inviting addressee to see her after her
performance; sold by Karl & Faber, 4-5 May 1960, whereabouts unknown.
Montez, Lola: Note to Meade Bros; 22 Dec 51, NYC; Harvard Theatre Collection
This slip thanks Meade Brothers and dates LM’s first photo session in the US.
Montez, Lola: Note of 18 March 52 (Boston?); sold at US auction in 1976, whereabouts
unknown.
Montez, Lola: Letter to Paco from Grass Valley on Sept. 14, 1853; sold at Geneva, 1987
(partial facsimile in catalog), whereabouts unknown.
This is a very important letter because it gives us the date Hull left LM and
establishes that she knew Sutter and had begun settling down in Grass Valley as of this date.
The catalog reproduces the final of four pages and summarizes the rest of the contents.
Montez, Lola: Poem and note to Stephen Massett; (Grass Valley, 1854?); Harvard Theatre
Collection
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My guess is that this dates from Massett’s visit to LM in Grass Valley in the spring of
1854, particularly because of the reference to wishing to have known a year earlier that men
are deceivers. See the microfilm in this collection and Volume 28-D..
Montez, Lola: Note to Capt. (Conrad K.) Hotaling requesting $60; dated Grass Valley, 22
Nov 49, but endorsed on back 24 Nov 54; signed "Lola Montez"; in the Bancroft
Collection
The misdating is curious, but the date is definitely 1854. Hotaling was in the mining
business in Grass Valley.
Montez, Lola: Letter to unknown girl, nd, np (New York? 1857? to Miriam Follin?); Cornell
University Library
I very strongly believe this was written to Mariam Follin in December of 1856 or in
January of 1857. From that conclusion, I make the further conclusion that LM knew Burr
from her first stay in NYC, since this letter mentions Burr specifically. See Volume 33-C.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to Captain Ward, concerning having missed his visit. New York
State Library, Albany.
It is hard to say when this note was written. See Volume 33H.
Montez, Lola: Note of 16 Nov 1857, American Hotel, Philadelphia; "the next world a lot
hotter for my critics than they've made this one for me..." quoted in an article in the
Boston Sunday Post, 28 October 1891, whereabouts unknown
LM apparently liked this phrase, since she used it in a letter to the editor of a Dublin
newspaper in December of 1858.
Montez, Lola: Letter reporting she is working on “Strong-Minded Women” and will be
lecturing in Baltimore and Washington. Yale University Library.
The contents make it possible to say that this letter was written from Baltimore on 19
November 1857 to Dr. Robert Shelton MacKenzie of Philadelphia. It makes clear that LM
wrote her own lectures. See Volume 33I.
Montez, Lola: Reading manuscripts of seven of her lectures, undated, three volumes.
Harvard Theatrical Collection.
Volume I contains “On fashion” (not in LM’s hand), and “On England” (in LM”s
hand, the lecture she gave as “John Bull at Home”).
Volume II contains
“Gallantry”(partially in LM’s hand, with the printer’s notations from when it was prepared
for publication in 1858) and “Heroines of History” (partially in LM’s hand, with the
printer’s notations from preparation for publication). Volume III contains “On emigration”
(in LM’s hand), and an untitled lecture, which is the one she gave in London on 15 June
1859 on slavery (in LM’s hand) and a final lecture, in LM’s hand but with a title, “On
America,” that is apparently not in LM’s hand.
These are valuable for preserving the text of lectures that are otherwise lost and also
for showing LM’s own corrections and changes in the manuscripts. They are clearly the
copies from which LM spoke.
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Montez, Lola: ASLetter from Bayard Street, “Friday,” with thanks for the flowers sent to her
autobiographical lecture. Harvard Theatre Collection.
Internal evidence and the fact it is part of Mrs. Buchanan’s papers make it possible to
say that this note is to Mrs. Isaac Buchanan and was written on 9 April 1858. It is valuable
in dating the reacquaintance of LM and Mrs. Buchanan and for establishing that she was
indeed living in Bayard Street with the Hoym family at this time, as the press had reported.
See Volume 34C.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter, Edinburgh, 8 Feb 1859, to an unknown man forwarding two tickets
to her lecture. Sold in Illinois in 1992, current whereabouts unknown.
Montez, Lola: ASLetter to Miss Mitchell on St. Marks Place, Manhattan, written from
London on 4 April 1859.
This long letter to a young woman LM did not know is very important in establishing
unequivocably the fervor and depth of her religious devotion at this time, which serves to
authenticate the passages from her lost diary quoted in The Story of a Penitent. See Volume
36-C.
Montez, Lola: Letter to unknown author; London, 13 June 1859; Ransom Center, U of Texas,
Austin (facsimile?)
This note is important because it gives the address of LM’s rented house in London
and establishes that she was already there by this date.
Montez, Lola: Souvenir note for Lucinda Storrs; dated New York, Jan 21, 60; signed "Lola
Montez"; in the Bancroft collection
The Storrs family was related to the Willis family, and one member of the Storrs
family was a prominent minister.
Montez, Lola: AS souvenir note for Rosalie T. Amody, undated, Harvard Theatre Collection.
May well date from the same period as the Bancroft’s souvenir note, and shows the
same religious tone. See Volume 37D and .Microfilm
Montez, Lola: Four-page ASLetter of 30 Jan 60, sold at US auction in 1966, to Dr. Robert
Shelton MacKenzie of Philadelphia, partially reprinted in Boston Sunday Post of
October 28,1891, whereabouts unknown.
Montez, Lola: Letter of Feb. 11, 1860 from Cleveland (to Ellen Osborn?), Monacensia
Collection of the Stadtbibliothek, Munich
Although to “Dear Camille,” internal evidence suggests the addressee of this letter
was Mrs. Sherard (Ellen) Osborn. LM mentions having seen a book by the addressee’s
husband mentioned the day before in the New York Times. A list of books appears in the
Times, and of the authors who were still living at that date, none were married to wives
named Camille. But one of the books mentioned is by Capt. Sherard Osborn, a naval officer
and explorer, and although his wife’s name was Ellen, the other facts of his life strongly
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indicate that his wife must be the addressee. At the time of her arrest for bigamy in 1849,
LM exclaimed that “Capt. Osborn can prove I was divorced.” A review of Osborn’s career
shows that he was rarely in London, but he was in London in 1849 and again in 1859-60. I
suspect the “Camille” appellation may be some kind of a joke on the popular play by Dumas
fils. The letter is very important. It gives the names of a number of LM’s friends in London,
gives her explanation of her departure from England, and gives her views on her life in New
York and the political situation.
Montez, Lola: Letter of 7 March from Louisville to Maria Buchanan. Harvard Theatre
Collection
See the microfilm in this collection and Volume 37-F. This is an important letter,
establishing LM’s relationship with the Buchanans, the nature of her 1860 tour, and her
future plans with the Burrs.
Montez, Lola: Will, dated 29 July 1860, formerly at the Mission Inn, Riverside CA, current
whereabouts unknown.
The text of this will is printed in Hutchins, Allis M. “The most famous vamp who ever
lived” in Hobbies -- The Magazine for Collectors, April 1945 at page 20, see Volume 37-H.
The text appears authentic and is interesting if not surprising. This will was superseded by
the later will of 9 January 1861.
Montez, Lola: Will, dated 9 January 1861, New York County Probate Records, Liber 134,
Page 453.
This is LM’s final will, which was probated and executed. The original will has disappeared
but the transcript and documents concerning probate remain. See Volume 38-H. Mr. Joel
Honig of New York City provided me with these materials.
Note: Holdredge in her list of sources filed in the California State Library claims to
have seen 44 manuscript letters of LM in a private collection. I have no idea what she is
talking about and seriously doubt that these letters really exist. There is almost nothing in
Holdredge’s biography that could have come from such letters.
OTHER MANUSCRIPTS
Anonymous: Untitled transcript of diary excerpts, apparently later revised; Monacensia
Collection, Stadtbibliothek Munich Call Number 4oMon2660 This item is referred to in
these notes as “Monacensia Diary” or “Mon Diary”
This is a typescript of an anonymous diary kept during LM’s time in Munich by
someone who obviously had extremely good sources of information. The copy in this
collection is partially a transcript and partially a photocopy. Excerpts from this diary
appear throughout the chronological documentation for 1846, 1847, and 1848.
Aplin, Capt Christopher: Journal kept in India Dec 1829-Oct 1831; British Library, India
Office, MSS EurB208
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Although this manuscript has no direct reference to LM, it depiction of life in Bengal
must give a good idea of what LM and her family experienced there.
Eberle, Charles: Reminiscenses 1854-1864 (trans Petraki); Ms in LaTrobe Library,
Melbourne.
The original is in French, with an English translation. It contains a bit of original
information about LM’s Australian tour.
Follin Family Correspondence, whereabouts unknown.
I have not seen this material, and it may perhaps no longer exist. Stern in her
biography of Mrs. Frank Leslie recounts that in the legal battle over Mrs. Frank Leslie’s
will, many family letters were entered into the legal record as exhibits. Included were letters
from Noel Follin, who went with LM to Australia in 1855, and the letters refer to LM. Stern
quotes a number of them, but there is no way of knowing what other material might have
been in the letters. Holdredge apparently also saw the letters because she quotes from one of
Follin’s letters not quoted by Stern. Stern adds that the originals of the letters were in the
possession of one of the attorneys who had worked on the will contest, and he had let her see
them. Unfortunately, Stern’s reference to the case file for the lawsuit is insufficient to
identify exactly where and how the letters were in evidence. I have made inquiries with the
New York courts, but they were unable to help me without a more precise reference.
Theytold me that most of the case files from that era had been destroyed to save storage
space, although various organizations were giving the right to take files before they were
destoyed, so the Leslie file might have ended up with the NY City Bar Association, or some
similar group.
As to the original letters, the attorney, Hiram Todd, whom Stern thanks in her notes,
is long since dead and his law firm dissolved. His obituary in the NY Times mentions a
number of surviing children, who might have some idea what happened to papers their father
held, but I have made no effort to pursue the matter that far. It is an interesting coincidence
that Hiram Todd was a trustee of Union College, where Peißner taught. It would indeed be a
strange coincidence if Follin’s letters have ended up there.
Holdredge’s reference in her list on file at the California State Library is typically
useless and deceptive, saying that the Follin letters are in the “New York City Archives,”
which they never were, although they were perhaps in an archive in New York City.
Greenwood Cemetery: Typed letter to Harry Houdini with record of burial of LM, 28 July
1923; Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, U. of Texas at Austin
Houdini had an interest in spiritualism, and that may have been the reason he wrote
to Green-wood Cemetery enquiring about LM’s burial. This is the reply he received, with the
date of interment, plot number, etc.
Heideckiana, Manuscript Department, Bavarian State Library, Munich.
These papers of the unhappy General Heideck contain some manuscript notes from
LM. Unfortunately, Heideck’s long memorandum on his problems with LM, quoted at length
by Wilhelm Krist in Lola, Ludwig und der General, is apparently still in private hands.
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James v. James, File of the Consistory Court of London, Greater London Record Office, part
of Accession No. 73.77
This file may have received a separate call number by now. The archivist told me
that the accession number was used for many documents received at one time, and when they
were recatalogued, a separate number would be assigned to the James v. James file. This
file is a treasure trove of information about LM. Wyndham obviously saw it when he was
writing his biography, but there are a number of valuable facts here he overlooked, among
them the deposition of LM’s maid, which gives an account of where she was living from June
to October of 1841. The return of the summons also reveals that she had gone to live with
Mrs. Rae in Edinburgh, where she was served in March 1842. There is also the transcript by
James’s brother of the parish register entry of the marriage, very valuable since the register
was apparently destroyed in the storming of the Four Courts in Dublin in 1920. Two
manuscript letters of LM’s step-father are included as exhibits.
Kaulbach Archiv, Bayersiche Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Major portions of the letters between Kaulbach and his wife were published in
Dürck-Kaulbach’s family memoir, but there are some unpublished matters of interest about
LM in Munich here, if you can decipher the handwriting.
König Ludwig I. Archiv, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
This is the greatest manuscript source of material about LM anywhere in the world.
Not only is the correspondence between the king and LM to be found here, but apparently
King Ludwig himself was responsible for the huge collection of documents relating to LM
that are assembled together here. They range from the amusingly trivial, such as a letter
from a young French girl who complains to the king that her life is dull and she wants a
position as companion to Lola Montez, to the dramatic revelation by Peißner of how LM
seduced him and pledged eternal love together with him. I spent two and a half months
working my way through this material, and it would certainly reward longer study. Still
inaccessible to anyone without the approval of the House of Wittelsbach, which is almost
never given, are the king’s voluminous (250+ volumes) diaries, which, according to
Gollwitzer, who did get permission to see them, concern themselves almost exclusively with
LM during the period she was in Munich. Photocopies of some of the letters exchanged
between Ludwig and LM can be found in Volume 9X and 12G.
McCabe, John H. : Diary, Sutro Library, San Francisco
What I saw was a typescript. I do not know whether the library has the original.
There is not a lot about LM’s SF career that is not better covered in the SF newspapers. Of
interest is his remark that Folland was said to have been sleeping on the deck of the
Falkinberg on the night he disappeared.
Nicolls, Sir Jasper: Journals and Correspondence, India Office, British Library, MSS Eur
F175
These journals do not contain a great deal about LM, but what they do contain is very
valuable. Sir Jasper notes LM’s first arrival at his home in Reading, her mother’s arrival in
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1837, and the stories of her elopement. They are also valuable for showing that many of the
stories told by LM and others about her relations with Sir Jasper and his family are false.
Panton, J.A.: Autobiography of a Melbourne Police Magistrate; MS, La Trobe Library,
Melbourne
This memoir appears to be of limited reliability and contains little relating to LM.
Stieler Archiv, Manuscript Department, Bavarian State Library, Munich
For reasons unknown, the protocol filed by officers Dictl and Weber after they
escorted LM from Blütenburg to Lindau, is to be found in this collection. It gives a few
interesting first-hand details.
Wood, William?: 356 Letters sold at auction in 1872, which mention LM:
Holdredge mentions these letters in her list of sources filed with the California State
Library. I have no idea where the letters might be and what, if anything, they may contain
about LM
PUBLISHED MATERIALS
Adalbert Wilhelm Georg Ludwig, Prinz von Bayern. Die Herzen der Leuchtenberg;
München:
Prestel,1963.
a few anecdotes of LM and Ludwig, possibly taken from Ludwig’s diaries
Albert Torrellas, A. Como las hojas. Lola Montez, la amada del Rey Poeta; Barcelona:
Sociedad General de Liberia, 1944.
very lightweight stuff
Albrecht, Dieter. “König Ludwig und Gottlieb Freiherr von Thon-Dittmer. Eine Quelle zu
Verhalten des Königs in der Revolution 1848” in Land und Reich, Stamm und
Nation. Festgabe für Max Spindler zum 90. Geburtstag. München: Beck, 1984.
See Volume 18L for this letter of Thon-Dittmer’s first interview with Ludwig.
Allgemeine Studenten und Volksbewegung in München am 8.9.10.11. und 12. Februar
1848; (München), Joh. Deschle'schen Officin. (1848)
See Volume 17K for this very good eyewitness account.
Allis, Hutchings. “The Most Famous Vamp Who Ever Lived” in Hobbies -- The Magazine
for Collectors, April 1945, pages 18-20.
See this article in Volume 37H. It is notable for nothing except that it includes an
imperfect transcription of LM’s will of 29 July 1860, now lost.
Anfang und Ende der Lola Montez in Bayern. Wahrheitsgetreue Schilderung der Zeit von
Oktober 1846 bis Februar 1848. München: In Kommission bei Christian Kaiser,
1848.
See Volume 17M. This pamphlet may be the work of Dr. Ludwig Merz.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 12
Anne-Mariel. Lola Montès, La Scandaleuse; Paris: Les Editions de Scorpion; 1955.
fiction
Avedisian, Louise Joanne: Lola Montez in California; 1971 Dissertation; UCLA Micro
Serv; LD 781.8 T3A948 Microfilm
See Volume 30 for the pertinent sections of the thesis. The author went through the
California press of LM’s time and quotes a number of articles not found elsewhere.
Everything of interest here appears in this collection and my biography. Much of the
material is extraneous, some wrong, particularly where the author tries to address LM’s life
outside of California.
Bac, Ferdinand (psn of Ferdinand Sigismond Bach). Louis Ier de Baviere et Lola Montès.
L'Allemagne Romantique, Tome 2; Paris: Louis Conard, 1928.
fiction
Atkins, William M. The Parish Church of Saint George, Hanover Square. London: Dix,
1976.
See Volume 20I for this brief history of the church where LM married Heald in their
second ceremony of that day.
Augustin-Thierry, A.: Lola Montes. Favorite Royale; Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1936.
Virtually the same text was published in two sections in the Revue des Deux
Mondes, Volume 30, 1935, pages 295-328 and 525-555.
See the full magazine text inVolume 39H. This purports to be biography, but it has a
large degree of fantasy and fiction in it.
“Aus den Tagen der Lola Montez,” in Neue Deutsche Rundschau, XII Jahrgang, 3. & 4.
Quartal, 1901, pages 913-944.
See Volume 16N for this very valuable article with first-person accounts of LM’s time
in Munich.
Auvergne, Edmund Basil Francis d’: Lola Montez, an Adventuress of the 'Forties; London:
T.Werner Laurie, 1909.
The first full-scale the biography of LM, and in many ways, still one of the best. It is
complete in Volume 42A.
Auvergne, Edmund B. d’: Adventuresses and Adventurous Ladies; New York: J.H.Sears &
Co, nd(1920?).
A briefer version of the earlier biography, with a few changes, in Volume 42B.
Ayers, Col. James J. Gold and Sunshine. Reminiscenses of Early California; Boston: Richard
Bodger, 1922.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 13
This book, as far as it relates to LM, is total junk. It has a ludicrous description of
the Spider Dance in which LM hops around on all fours as a spider and says LM accused
Hull of something shameful in her divorce action. Senile drivel
Bachmann, Karl: Die Volksbewegung 1848-1849 im Allgäu und ihre Vorläufer;
Elangen: Palm & Enke, 1954.
See Volume 18J.
Balantine, William. Some Experiences of a Barrister's Life; London: Richard Bentley & Son,
1882.
One brief anecdote of LM in London in 1851
Bayerns Erhebung. Zweite mit der Schilderung der März-Tage vermehrte Auflage von
Anfang und Ende der Lola Montez in Bayern. München: Christian Kaiser, 1848.
See Volume 17M. This is a later edition of the Anfang und Ende pamphlet.
Bean, Edwin F. History and Directory of Nevada County; 1867
a good source on Grass Valley and vicinity
“Beherrscher eines Kleinstaates, Der” from Gartenlaube, No. 38, 1866.
See Volume 3K. This anonymous article about Heinrich LXXII, written a few years
after his death, apparently by a member of the Reuß family, has some valuable information
about his encounter with LM.
Bericht aus München über die Ereignisse des 9., 10., 11 Februar. München: Leonhard
Henzel, 1848.
See Volume 17J. This anonymous pamphlet was written in the heat of things on 12
February and reflects well the outrage of the people. Valentin claims in his history that the
Catholic clergy paid for the distribution of this pamphlet.
Bernhard, Gustav. Die Gräfin Landsfeld weiland Lola Montez und die Münchner Studenten.
Leipzig: Köstling, 1848.
See Volume 18G for these rather uninspired lyrics on LM’s departure.
Beyer, L (psn.). Glorreiches Leben und Taten der edelen Senora Dolores. Aus dem
Spanischen verteutscht durch L. Beyer; Leipzig: E.O.Weller, 1847.
See Volume 16S for this pamphlet-poem that has a few valuable clues to LM’s
activities.
Bihar, Government of. List of Pre-Mutiny Inscriptions in Christian Burial Grounds in the
Patna Region; np, [1938].
the source for the tombstone inscriptions of Gilbert and Craigie
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 14
Bitomsky, Hartmut. “Lola Montez. Die bezeichnende Lust und der bezeichnete Schmerz”
in Filmkritik, No. 18, 1974, pages 259-278.
An analysis of the Ophüls film. In Volume 39K.
Blainey, Ann. The Farthing Poet, A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne; London:
Longmans, 1968.
source for a couple of good facts about LM in Australia
Blake, Charles: An Historical Account of the Providence Stage; Providence: G.H. Whitney,
1868.
See Volume 26D and Volume 33E for interesting memoirs of LM in Providence.
Blätter der Corruption aus unserer Zeit; Bamberg u.a.; 1847.
I have not seen this, but part of it may be reproduced without being identified under
this title in the “Papon und Andere” book published in Stuttgart in 1849, which is on
microfilm in this collection.
Blos, Wilhelm. Der Prinzipienreiter. Eine Geschichte aus dem Jahre 1848; Berlin:
Buchhandlung Vorwarts Paul Singer, 1912.
fiction, in which LM becomes “Lola” and Heinrich LXII is “Eric 99”
Bluntschli, Johann Caspar: Denkwürdiges aus meinem Leben, Band 1; Nördlingen: Beck,
1884.
See Volume 18I. Bluntschli was an observer and would-be player in the last days of
Ludwig’s reign.
Boisserée, Sulpiz. Tagebücher. Volume IV, 1844-1854. Darmstadt: Roether, 1985.
See Volume 8N for a story, certainly apochryphal, of LM’s first meeting with King
Ludwig.
Boehn, Max von. Biedermeyer. Deutschland von 1815 bis 1847; Berlin: nd
very good social history of Germany between Waterloo and revolution
Bouchardon, Pierre. Le Duel du Chemin de la Favorite: Paris: Albin Michel, 1927.
See the complete text in Volume 6A. A very good discussion of the Dujarier duel and
subsequent trial, apparently based in part on unpublished sources.
Bradfield, Raymond Arthur: Lola Montez and Castlemaine: some early theatrical history;
[Vaughan, Victoria], R.A.Bradfield, [1980].
For the LM section of this little pamphlet, see Volume 32C. Nothing here of interest
except some hard-to-find newspaper articles about LM reprinted.
Brandmüller, Walter (hsg.). Handbuch der bayerischen Kirchengeschichte, Band 3. St.
Ottilein: EOS, 1991.
See Volume 16P for an excerpt from this sourcebook.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 15
Bray-Steinburg, Otto Graf von. Denkwürdigkeiten aus meinem Leben; Leipzig:1901
See Volume 16M for this relatively short excerpt on LM’s time in Munich.
Britton, John. Bath and Bristol; Newcastle upon Tyne; 1969 reprint of 1829 edition
source of the print of Camden Circle, Bath, in 1829 in Volume 46C
Bülow, Eduard von. Novellen. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1846, 2 volumes. See Volume 3M for
“Die neue Melusine” from this collection.
This story, although containing fictional elements, is transparently a sketch of LM,
whom von Bülow met in Berlin in 1843, where she also got to know his young son Hans. It is
to be found in Volume3M.
Burke’s Irish Family Records; London: Burke’s Peerage, 1976.
See Volume 2E for the entry on the Oliver family
Cannon, M[ichael] (compiler). Lola Montes. The Tragic Story of a Liberated Woman;
Melbourne: Heritage Publications, 1973.
An annotated copy of this book is part of the collection
Carter, Thomas. Historical Record of the Forty-fourth or the East Essex Regiment; London:
W.O. Mitchell, 1864.
Carter is the source for the erroneous information that Gilbert was commissioned
from the ranks of the 25th Foot. His descriptions of the movements of the 44th up the
Ganges have been used by some biographers to describe Gilbert’s trip, but the fact is that
Gilbert arrived in India after most of the 44th had already departed for Dinapore and
probably did not share any of the experiences Carter reports on.
Cary, Edward. “Address on the Presentation of the Bust of Elias Peissner to Union
College” in History of the Union College Class of 1863, pages 76-79.
See Volume 17C.
Certigny, Henry. Lola Montès. D'un Trone à un Cirque; Paris: Gallimard, 1959.
fiction, based on Augustin-Thierry (which is itself practically fiction)
Chorley, Henry F. Modern German Music; New York: Da Capo Press, 1973
(reprint of 1854 edition); 2 vols
See Volume 5L for an excerpt.
Chorley, Henry F. Thirty Years' Musical Recollections; New York, Vienna House, 1972.
(reprint of 1862 edition)
See Volume 5M for a brief excerpt about the Beethoven festival.
Chroust, Anton (bear.): Gesandtschaftsberichte aus München 1814-1848. Abteilung I,Die
Berichte der französischen Gesandten, Band V; München: 1936.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 16
See Volume 15. An invaluable resource on LM in Munich.
Chroust, Anton (bear.): Gesandtschaftsberichte aus München 1814-1848. Abteilung IIDie
Berichte der österreichischen Gesandten, Band III; München, 1942.
See Volume 13. An invaluable resource on LM in Munich.
Chroust, Anton (bear.): Gesandtschaftsberichte aus München 1814-1848. Abteilung III,Die
Berichte der preußichischen Gesandten, Band IV; München: 1951.
See Volume 14. An invaluable resource on LM in Munich.
Claudin, Gustav. Mes souvenirs. Les boulevards de 1840 a 1871; Paris: Calmann
Levy. 1884.
See Volume 4D for the pertinent pages.
Clemmer, Mary (Ames): Outlines of men, women, and things; New York; Hurd & Houghton,
1873.
a brief reference to LM
Colby, Anne. The Last of the Courtesans: Synopsis of a Photoplay; New York: 1924. 28 p
Corti, Egon Cäsar Conte: Ludwig I. von Bayern; München: Bruckmann, 1937.
See Volume 19 for the pertinent passage of this important biography of King Ludwig,
probably the best to treat Ludwig as a man and not just a political figure.
Costello, Conte (psn of Reis, Kurt). Lola Montez und Ludwig von Bayern. Roman
nach zeitgenossisschen Quellenwerken und Memorien frei bearbeitet; Berlin:
Deutsche Buchvertrieb und Vel.Ges, 1954.
fiction
Cotton, Julian James. List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras;
Madras: Superintendent of Government Press, 1905.
The source for Lennox’s memorial inscription
Craig, William. My Adventures in the Australian Goldfields; London: Cassell & Co, 1903.
See Volume 32K for some interesting LM anecdotes.
Criticisms on the performances of Henry Jackson, the Celebrated Comedian from the
Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobarton, etc., Newspapers. Auckland: 1857
See Volume 29D for this vanity publication by Jackson, which, however, preserves
some otherwise lost reviews of LM performances in Australia.
Crowe, Catherine. The Night Side of Nature; London: T.C.Newby, 1848; 2 vols.
According to Blainey, Horne loaned this book on supernatural phenomena to LM in
Melbourne and never got it back.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 17
Dankmara, A.: Memoiren der Lola Montez; Berlin: Memoiren Bibliothek, n.d.
This is a pretty poor production, but it may be one of the few works to derive from the
1851 Grimma edition of LM’s memoirs. Not worth bothering to find.
Danton, George H. “Elias Peissner” in Monatshefte für Deutschen Unterricht, Vol. 32, No.
7, November 1940, pages 314-324.
See Volume 17C for this interesting article, which discusses the few papers of Peißner
that have survived and his publications.
Darling, Amanda (psn): Lola Montez; New York: Stein and Day, 1972.
Total trash. An annotated copy is in this collection.
Davis, Andrew Jackson: Principles of Nature; London, Chapman, 1847 2 vols
According to a reminiscence published just after her death in the NY Post, it was this
book of Andrews, read in Grass Valley, that got LM seriously interested in reading the Bible.
It is a very strange production from “spirit writing.”
Delvau, Alfred. Les lions du jour. Physionomies Parisiennes. Paris: E.Dentu,1867.
See Volume 24C for a brief excerpt with a reprinting of some of Roux’s publicity for
LM’s 1851 tour of France.
Derby, George Horatio (writing as John Phoenix). Phoenixiana or Sketches and
Burlesques by John Phoenix; New York: D.Appleton, 1856.
Little here about LM but lots of color from that era.
Dickopf, Karl. Georg Ludwig von Maurer 1790-1872. Eine Biographie; Kallmünz:
Michael Lassleben,1960.
See Volume 16V for the pertinent part of this scholarly biography of Maurer.
Diesbach, Alfred. “Lola Montez am Bodensee,” publication unknown.
See Volume 17Q.
Dirr, Pius. “Sturmbewegte Zeiten. Universität, Studenten und Bürgerschaft im Februar
1848” in Das Bayernland, Band 37, Heft 21, 1 November 1926, pages 653-664.
See Volume 17I. This article does the valuable service of reprinting major parts of
the memorandum Kaspar von Steinsdorf filed with the Munich Stadtarchiv concerning his
part in the flight of LM.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield's Correspondence with his Sister, 18321852; London: John Murray, 1886.
includes a letter of July 1849 about LM’s marriage to Heald
Dobmayer, Dr. Ignaz [psn.]. Zustände und Ereignisse in München im Jahre 1847. Berlin:
Herman Friedländer, 1847.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 18
See Volume 10B for an excerpt from this book, whose text is identical with that of
Lola Montez und die Jesuiten, by Paul Erdmann, to be found at Volume 10A in its entirety.
Doeberl, Michael. Entwicklungsgeschichte Bayerns, Band 3; München: R. Oldenbourg,
1931.
See Volume 16D for the relevant portions of this basic text on Bavarian history.
Dürck-Kaulbach, Josefa (hsg). Erinnerungen an Wilhelm von Kaulbach und sein Haus;
München: Delphin, 1917.
See Volume 16Y for excerpts from this book with very interesting, if not totally
reliable letters between Wilhelm von Kaulbach and his wife.
Duncan & Co: Catalogue [of sale of jewelry of Lola Montez]; np, nd [San Francisco: 1856].
The Bancroft has what seems to be the unique surviving copy of this catalog. It is
valuable for showing just how much gold LM brought back from Australia.
[Dyer, Heman]: The Story of a Penitent. Lola Montez; New York: Protestant Episcopal
Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1867.
See the full text at Volume 38G. This short book is usually attributed to Francis
Lister Hawks, but Hawks was dead by the time the book appeared and he is referred to in the
third person throughout, except where his entry into the Calvary Church register is quoted.
It appears obvious that the real author was Heman Dyer, the copyright holder, who was an
offiecer of the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge.
The book is valuable not only for quoting Hawks’s account of his experiences with
LM but also for the quotations, which appear to me entirely authentic, from the spiritual
diary LM seems to have kept for a few weeks in September and October of 1859.
A 30-page French edition of this book was published in Geneva in 1868 by Pfeffer et
Puky. It listed the author as “F-L H.” I have not seen this edition, but it was apparently the
cause of the discussion Cosima Wagner had in that year with Richard Wagner concerning
LM, which she recorded in her diary.
Eden, Hon. Emily: Up the Country; London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1930
See Volume 2G for excerpts, the invaluable glimpses of the young Mrs. Thomas
James before she became Lola Montez.
Eden, Hon. Emily: Miss Eden's Letters; London, Macmillan and Co, Ltd, 1919.
See Volume 2H for excerpts referring to Sir Jasper Nicolls and family.
Emmerig, Ernst. “Lola Montez und das Wünnenberghaus in Vilseck” in Die Oberpflaz,
Jahrgang 72, 1984, pages 175-179.
See Volume 18P for this well researched but ultimately futile speculation about a visit
of LM to Vilseck that never took place.
Engel, Ingeborg: Ein Schwerhöriger auf Bayerns Thron, Ludwig I 1786-1868; München:
Collegium Ausgustinium, 1991.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 19
Not a major work, but very interesting for the information it provides about Ludwig’s
hearing problems and how they affected his worldview. A copy is part of this collection.
Erdmann, Paul [psn.]. Lola Montez und die Jesuiten. Eine Darstellung der jüngsten
Ereignisse in München; Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1847.
See Volume 10A for the full text of this interesting book written during LM’s stay in
Munich. It is identical with the book by Dr. Ignatz Dobmayer.
Erman, Hans. “Das Lächeln der Lola Montez” in Ost und West, 1st half year of 1948,
pages 17-25.
Pretty worthless stuff, but you can find it in Volume 39I.
Escherich, Emile. Altmünchner Erinnerungen aus der Zeit König Ludwigs I.. München:
Einhorn, 1936.
See Volume 9S for an excerpt from these rather unreliable memoirs.
Espina, Antonio. Seis Vidas espanolas; Madrid: Taurus, 1967.
fiction
F.H.Z. Großes europäisches Fürsten- und Völker-Concert. Leipzig: Heinrich Matthes,
1848.
See Volume 18F for an excerpt from this rather humorless satire.
Fitzball (actually Ball), Edward. Thirty-Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life; London:
T.C.Newby, 1859. 2 vols
See excerpt at Volume 3F for this interesting brief memoir of LM in London.
Farley, Porter. “The Day Peissner Fell” in The Union College Alumni Monthly, February
1914, pages 105-108.
See Volume 17C.
Flaubert, Gustav: The Letters of Gustav Flaubert, 1830-1857; Cambridge: Belknap Press of
Harvard Univ., 1980.
The letter of Flaubert describing the tragic funeral of his sister just days before the
trial of Beauvallon began hardly seems written by a man who would go off to watch a
celebrity trial.
Foley, Doris: The Divine Eccentric. Lola Montez and the Newspapers; Los Angeles:
Westernlore Press, 1969.
See Volume 31 for the full text of this excellent book. Although Foley wanders off
into extraneous matters at times, and she can do nothing but copy others’ accounts of LM
outside of California, she found some really valuable original material about LM here in
California.
Fouquier, Armand. Causes célèbres de tous les peuples; Paris: Lebrun et Cie, 1859.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 20
See Volume 6B for the full text of the chapter on the trials following the Dujarier
duel. A good general summary of the facts, but the frequently reproduced engravings that
accompany the text have no particular claim to authenticity.
Fournier, Auguste. “Lola Montez. Ein geheimer Bericht über Bayern im Jahre 1847” in
Deutsche Revue, Band 27, Teil 3, August 1902, pages 214-230.
See Volume 9I. The report of the Austrian secret agent is interesting to show what
rumors were circulating in Munich in the spring of 1847, but it cannot be trusted.
Fournier, Auguste. “Lola Montez und die Regierungswechsel in Bayern in 1847. Neue
Dokumente” in Deutsche Revue, Band 34, Teil 4, October 1909, page 34-57.
See Volume 9 H. This article is based essentially on the reports of the Austrian
embassy in Munich.
Fournier, Auguste. “Lola Montez und die Studenten. Unedierte Berichte,” in Deutsche
Revue, Band 39, Teil 1, March 1914, pages280-298.
See Volume 12F. This article is based on the reports from the Austrian embassy in
Munich.
[Francis, George Henry]. “The King of Bavaria, Munich, and Lola Montez” in Fraser’s
Magazine, Volume 37, January 1848, pages 89-104.
See Volume 17D for this interesting article about LM in Munich by a London friend
of hers who came to visit.
[Francis, George Henry]. Lola Montez und ihre politische Stellung in München.Nach
einem englischen Berichte mit einem Vorwort des deutschen Herausgeber;
München: Joh. Deschler, 1848
See Volume 17E for this German translation of the article immediately above, as it
appeared in Galignani’s Messenger in Paris on 18 January 1848.
Fuchs, Eduard. Ein vormärzliches Tanzidyll. Lola Montez in der Karikatur; Berlin: Ernst
Frensdorff, 1904.
A magnificent study, complete in Volume 41.
Fuchs, Eduard. “Lola Montez in der Karikatur” in Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, 2nd
Year, June 1898, pages 106-126.
A sketch for Fuchs later book. See it in Volume 39C.
Gagey, Edmond M. The San Francisco Stage; New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1950.
See excerpts at Volume 27K.
Giardina, Roberto. Lola Montez. Ballerina e Avventuriera. Vita di Eliza Dolores Gilbert,
Contessa di Landsfeld. Milano: Rusconi, 1992.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 21
Nothing of real value here. Much speculation, heavy reliance on Corti and
Gollwitzer. The last ten years of LM’s life are covered in 15 pages. A copy of this biography
is part of this collection.
Glasscock, G.B.: A Golden Highway. Scenes of History's Greatest Gold Rush Yesterday and
Today; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1934.
Not worth much, but you’ll find it at Volume 27M.
Gluth, Oskar. Der Löwe und die Tänzerin. Ein Münchener Roman über Lola Montez;
München: Ehrenwurth, 1950.
fiction
Goldberg, Isaac. Queen of Hearts. The Passionate Pilgrimage of Lola Montez; New York:
John Day Co., 1936.
Goldberg seems to have done his research, but he ended up writing what seems a
very derivitive biography, with far too much faith placed in the 1851 Berlin edition of LM’s
memoirs. The full text is in Volume 43.
Gollwitzer, Heinz. Ludwig I. von Bayern. Königtum im Vormärz. Eine Politische
Biographie; München: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1986.
A masterful study of King Ludwig but largely as a king and as a man only as his
personal life became a matter of state. That means LM is necessarily discussed but not in the
detail Gollwitzer might otherwise have given her. Gollwitzer had the advantage of total
access to the king’s private diaries, not granted to any other scholar. The Doe Library has a
copy.
Gollwitzer, Heinz. Ein Staatsmann des Vormärz: Karl von Abel, 1788-1859. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994.
See Volume 8N for the pertinent portions of this excellent biography.
Gordon, Harry (ed.). An Eyewitness History of Australia. Melbourne: Currey O’Neill,
1976.
See Volume 32D. Newspaper reports of LM’s run-in with Seekamp.
Goudal, Jean. Scandale à la cour; Paris: Mont Blanc, 1949.
fiction
Gougaud, Dom L. “Unpublished Letter of Doellinger on Lola Montez” in Irish
Ecclesiastic Record, 1914, Volume 3, pages 252-258.
See Volume 18H for this original but not very surprising account.
Greenblatt, Robert B. “Lola Montez. Auf der Suche nach Unabhängigkeit, Erfolg und
Liebe” from Sexualmedizin, No. 9, 1981, pages 362-364.
A piece of total junk, but you’ll find it in Volume 39L.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 22
Grillparzer, Franz. Sämtliche Werke, Band 1 München: Carl Hansen [1967?].
See Volume 9T for Grillparzer’s poem on LM.
Guest, Ivor. Romantic Ballet in Paris. London: Pilman, 1966.
See excerpt at Volume 4J. Guest is not completely reliable; he gets his facts
scrammbled, but he does have access to good sources.
Günther, Leo. Würzburger Chronik. Würzburg: Bonitas-Bauer, 1925.
See Volume 9-O for an account of LM’s ill-fated visit to Würzburg.
Hacker, Rupert. Die Beziehungen zwischen Bayern und dem Hl. Stuhl in der
Regierungzeit Ludwig I (1825-1848); Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1967.
See Volume 16Q for an excerpt that makes clear the alleged letter from the pope to
King Ludwig about LM was a forgery.
Hall, John Richard, Sir. The Bravo Mystery and other Cases; London: John Lane,
the Bodley Head, 1923.
See Volume 5G for the chapter about the trial of Beauvallon for Dujarier’s murder.
No original material here, but a good summary.
Harré, Thomas Everett. The Heavenly Sinner. The Life and Loves of Lola Montez; New
York: The Macauley Co., 1935.
fiction
Harris, Thomas Lake. Arcana of Christianity: an unfolding of the celestial sense of the divine
word; New York: New Church Pub. Assn., 1858 reprinted by AMS Press, NYC,
1976.
A book much admired by LM, but one that must seem very bizarre to most readers.
Hase, Ulrike von. Joseph Stieler; München: Prestel, 1971.
contains some valuable anecdotes about LM from the private Stieler family archives
Hauser, Michael (Miska): Aus dem Wanderbuch eines österreichishen Virtuosen. Briefe aus
Californien, Südamerika, und Australien, gesammelt und herausgegebenvon
S.Hauser;
Leipzig: Herbig, 1859, 2 vols.
See Volume 27L and Volume 29G for excerpts relating to LM from this fascinating
but not always credible series of letters home from a touring violinist.
Hawks, Rev. Francis Lister: Lola Montez. The Story of a Penitent. From the Church Militant
to the Church Triumphant; New York, (1896); 4 p
This is a rare unbound reprint of Hawks’s entry in the Calvary Church register
following the funeral of LM. For the book, The Story of a Penitent. Lola Montez, published
in 1867 and often wrongly attributed to Hawks, see Dyer, Heman.
Hayn, Hugo & Gotendorf, A. (Hsgr). Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica & Curiosa:
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 23
Band V; Hanau/M: Müller & Kiepenheuer, [1927].
The entries for “Montez, Lola” and “München” are in Volume 39D. They are a very
valuable bibliographical resource for the study of LM.
Heigel, Karl Theodor. Ludwig I. König von Bayern; Leipzig: Duncker & Humboldt, 1872.
See Volume 9F for excerpts from this interesting but not always reliable biography.
Heine, Heinrich: Werke; Berlin: Akademische Verlag, 1973; Band 23, Briefe 1850-56.
Heine wrote to his brother about LM on 21 January 1851, enclosing a letter of hers
that is now lost. Heine’s letter is transcribed in Volume 24A.
Higgens, Capt. R.T. (ed): The Records of the King's Own Borderers or Old Edinburgh
Regiment; London: Chapman and Hall, 1873.
The regimental history of the 25th Foot, but no particular information on Gilbert
Hingston, Edward P. The Genial Showman; London: John Camden, no date; 2 vols
contains a brief account of LM just before her death, transcribed in Volume 38A
Hodson, V.C.P.: List of the Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834; London:
Constable & Co., 1927-47, 4 volumes.
See Volumes 2J and 9V for excerpts from this indispensible reference work
Holdredge, Helen. The Woman in Black. The Life of Lola Montez; New York:
Putnam, 1955.
A truly pernicious book, containing a good deal of new material on LM but so much
unlabeled fiction and fantasy as to total muddle the whole field of biography of Lola. An
annotated copy is included in the collection.
Holland, Henry Scott & Roscksto, W.S. Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt;
Early Art-Life and Dramatic Career, 1820-1851; London: J.Murray, 1891.
See Volume 8I for a not totally reliable account of Lind’s Munich visit in 1846.
Holland, Norman. Lola Montez. Der König und die Tänzerin. tr Seeger; München:
Ehrenwirth Verlag, 1988.
fiction, a German translation of a work I have been unable to find in the original
English
Hopf, A. Politische Soiree der Ex-Regenten in England und ihre Begegnung mit
Lola Montez; Berlin: Leopold Schlesinger, 1848.
See Volume 18Mc for this satirical pamphlet Ludwig sent to LM in exile.
Horn, O.. Chronik der Palatia in Zur 50. Jahresfeier der Palatia; München: Rosl, 1863.
See Volume 17F. There are a few interesting details here.
Her
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 24
Hummel, Karl-Joseph. München in der Revolution von 1848/49. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987.
See Volume 18E for excerpts from this fascinating study of Munich on the verge of
revolution.
Ikonnikov, Nicolas, ed. La Noblesse de la Russie. Paris: [privately printed], 1959
Volume J1, at pages j159-j171, has a discussion of the Meller-Zakomelsky family.
Ireland, Joseph N.: Records of the New York Stage from 1750 to 1860; New York:
T.H.Morrell, 1866-1867.
nothing particularly valuable about LM here
Jacobson, Pauline: City of the Golden ’Fifties; Berkeley: Univ of Cal Press, 1941.
This book, excerpted at Volume 27I, has the distinction of being the only book I know
to say LM was a blonde!
Jacquot, Charles J.B.: see Mirecourt, Eduard de
Janin, Jules. 735 Lettres à sa femme; [Paris]: C. Klincksieck, 1973.
See excerpts at Volume 4N, Volume 5I, Volume 9U, and Volume 20D. Occasionally
pertinent observations from a man who was the ultimate Parisian insider.
Jordan, Angelika: Lola Montez; Gütersloh & Stuttgart: Europaische
Bildungsgemeinschaft (Bertelsmann), 1973.
This is one work on LM I have failed to examine, but I feel sure from the publisher
and the fact it was distributed by a popular book club that it doesn’t have anything new in it.
Jungman-Stadler, Franziska. “Johann Nepomuk Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann” in Das
Bayernland, Volume 91, No. 3, September 1989, page 67.
See Volume 8K for most of this article. The author apparently had access to
unpublished Pechmann family papers.
KGM. “Das erste Auftreten von Lola Montez in Deutschland” from Velhagen und
Klasing’s Monatsheft, February 1901.
See Volume 3L for the full text. According to Hans-Eberhard Weber of Leipzig, the
author of this article was General-Major Erwin Kressner and appears in another form in his
memoirs, Aus österreicher Kadetten- und Leutnantzeit: Jugenderinnerungen eines alten
deutschen Offiziers, von KGM, Berlin: Alexander Duncker,1902. I have not seen this book.
The article is extremely valuable and appears to be the most authentic account of LM’s visit
to Ebersdorf, despite the fact it appeared sixty years after the fact.
Kapp, Julius. Franz Liszt; Berlin: 1909.
According to Alan Walker, apparently the first appearance in print of the story of
Liszt locking LM in a hotel room and fleeeing.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 25
Kelen, Betty: The Mistresses; New York: Random House, 1966.
The section of this book about LM is well written but contains absolutely nothing
new.
Kelly, William. Life in Victoria. or Victoria in 1853 and Victoria in 1858; London:
Chapman
and Hall, 1859.
See Volume 32E for some credible reminiscences of LM.
Kerner, Theobald. (hrsgr): Justinius Kerners Briefwechsel mit seinen Freunden;
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlag Anstalt, 1897.
See Volume 18N for this source of so much confusion with Kerner’s comic letters.
Kobell, Luise von. Unter den vier ersten Königen Bayerns. Nach Briefen und eigenen
Erinnerungen; München: Beck, 1894.
See Volume 16J for excerpts from this not terribly reliable but oft quoted book.
Kock, Henry de. Histoire des courtisanes célèbres; Paris: Brunel-Vernay, 1869; 1878
edition changed to "femmes infidèles" ; Italian translation 1885.
fiction
Kopf, Joseph. “Elias Peißner (1825-1863)” in Die Oberpflaz, 1952, pages 108-109.
See Volume 17B. This article, which was one of a series on Peißner, is the only one
that has any particularly new information, here about Peißner requesting his school records
and his family’s receiving financial support from King Ludwig.
Kretschmer, Ernst Paul. Aus dem Leben eines fürstlichen Bruders des Beherrscheres eines
Kleinstaates, des Fürsten Heinrich LXXII Reuß-Ebersdorf. Ein Beitrag zur
Geschichte
des "tollen Jahres"; Leipzig, Sonderdruck der Mitteilungen der
Großloge der Deutsche
Bruderkette, 1931
Nothing here that is told better in Kretschmer’s “Alles um Liebe.”
Kretschmer, Ernst Paul. “‘Alles um Liebe.’ Eine wahre Geschichte aus dem Reußischen
Oberland;” a slightly modified reprint of an article from the Thüringer
Monatsblätter of 1 March 1938.
See Volume 3J. No real original information here but a good retelling.
Kristl, Wilhelm Lukas. Lola, Ludwig und der General; Pfaffenhofen/Ilm: Ludwig, 1979.
See Volume 16-O for a major excerpt from this valuable book. Kristl had the benefit
of an unpublished memorandum by General Heideck on his troubles with LM, and he quotes
it at length.
Kristl, Wilhelm Lukas. “Unsterbliche Lola? Bücher von und über Lola Montez” in Aus
dem Antiquariat, Beiblatt zum Börsenblatt für Deutschen Buchhandel, 29th year, No.
25, 30 March 1973, pages A97 to A106.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 26
In Volume 39E, an attempt at a LM bibliography, but not a very rigorous one.
Kühn, Richard (hsg): Hofdamen-Briefe um Habsburg und Wittelsbach, 1835-1865;
Berlin: 1942.
This book contains a very unlikely looking photograph said to be LM and a letter that
is primarily interesting for what must be a wrong date.
Kurz, Ferdinand. Der Antheil der Münchener Studentenschaft an den Unruhen der Jahre
1847 und 1848; München: Academischer Verlag, [1893]
See Volume 17H for this interesting, opinionated, but largely accurate account of the
students’ role in LM’s flight from Munich.
Lasker, J. & Gerhard, Frdr. Des deutschen Volkes Erhebung im Jahre 1848, etc.;
Danzig, Frdr. Gerhard, 1848.
See Volume 18B for the pertinent excerpt.
Laurent, Jacques. Lola Montès. Paris: Presse de la Cité, 1970. see also St. Laurent
fiction
Leland, Charles Godfrey. Memoirs; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1893.
See the parts concerning LM at Volume 39A. Leland’s story about Apuleius shows
that he was the author of the obituary for LM in Frank Leslie’s Weekly Magazine.
Leman, Walter. Memories of an old Actor; San Francisco: A. Roman, 1886.
notable only for a brief remark about a party for LM the night before her departure
for Australia
Lewald, Fanny. Zwölf Bilder nach dem Leben. Berlin: Otto Janke, 1888.
See Volume 4A for the original text and Volume 4E for an English translation. This
is important as the only source for an extended comment by Liszt on LM, and it has a ring of
authenticity, despite being published 40 years after the conversation. Lewald claims it is
based on her diaries and letters of the time.
Lewis, Taylor. “Col. Elias Peissner” in The Union College Magazine, Volume 5, No. 2,
March 1867, pages 51-63.
See Volume 17C for this extremely interesting memoir of Peißner by his father-in-law.
Liebl, Franz. “Scandala Monacensia” in Chiemgau-Blätter, No. 42, 23 October 1976.
See Volume17P. little of interest
Liszt, Franz. Correspondance de Liszt et de la Comtesse d’Agoult, Volume 2, 1840-1864.
Paris: Bernard Grasset, nd.
See Volume 4F for the excerpts mentioning LM, which are sparse.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 27
Lola Montès: Adventures de la célèbre danseuse raconté par elle-même avec son portrait et
un fac-simile de son écriture; Paris: Bauruche, 1847
Definitely not autobiography, as it claims to be, but this may include some original
LM stories. See the German translation below.
Lola Montez: Abenteur der berühmten Tänzerin. Von ihr selbst erzählt. Aus dem
Französischen; Leipzig: Kößling'sche Buchhandlung, 1847.
See Volume 16T for the German version of this pamphlet capitalizing on LM’s
noteriety. It was promptly banned in Bavaria, but it went through at least two editions.
Lola Montes: or, A Reply to the “Private History and Memoirs” of That Celebrated Lady, etc.
New York: 1851.
See Volume 21C for this very curious publication, attributed by the Library of
Congress, for no apparent reason, to one Johnson Richardson. This is a purported reply to
the English translation of Papon’s book that does little but repeat his most telling comments
on LM. She specifically disavowed this book in a letter to the NYHerald.
“Lola Montès et les Catholiques de la Bavière” in Le Correspondent, 1847, Volume 17,
pages 906-918.
See Volume 9E.
Lola Montez (so!) jetztige Gräfin von Landsfeld oder Das Mensch gehört dem König. Eine
Geschichtsverhandlung aus der neuesten Zeit. Nebst einenm ernsten Nachwort;
Birsfeld: Druck und Verlag zum schwarzen Adler, 1847.
This publication may be the satirical trial piece reprinted serially in the Brusseler
Deutsche Zeitung in 1847 (See Volume 9B). Some sources credit it to Friedrich Engels.
“Lola Montez. Aus den Aufzeichnungen eines Achtundvierzigers” in Österreichisches
Rundschau, Band 16, pages 57-63.
See Volume 17N for this article with letters of eyewitness reports from Munich.
Lola Montez mit ihrem Anhange und Münchens Bürger und Studenten! mit dem Nachtrag
Das Nachtlager in Blutenburg oder der Lola Montez letztes Verweilen in Münchens
Nähe München: Dr. Wild, 1848.
See Volume 17Mc. This may be by Karl Wilhelm Vogt. The Nachtrag is of particular
interest.
Lola Montez, Gräfin von Landsfeld. München: J. Deschler, 1848.
See Volume 17L. This is an updated and expanded version of Allgemeine Studentenund Volkbewegung, with good eyewitness accounts of events.
Lola Montez, Die Geschichte einer Kurtisane. Der Bayernkönig und die Tänzerin; Berlin:
Elemant Verlag, 1928.
fiction
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 28
Love, Harold (ed.). The Australian Stage: a documentary history; Kensington, NSW: 1984.
See an excerpt with no major information in Volume 32J.
Ludwig I. von Bayern. Gedichte (edited and with an afterword by Hanna S. Macher,
sketches by Wilhelm von Kaulbach). Pfaffenhofen: Ludwig, 1980.
See excerpts of the poems on LM in Volume 9Q.
Lumley, Benjamin: Reminiscences of the Opera; London: Hurst and Blackett,
1864
See excerpt at Volume 3E. This is important, together with the press reports, to
clarify the false version of LM’s debut given in Q’s account..
Lux, Joseph Auguste. Lola Montez. Historischer Roman; Berlin: R. Bong, 1912; reprinted
in 1930.
fiction
McMinn, George R.: The Theater of the Golden Era in California; Caldwell, Idaho: The
Caxton Printers, 1941.
See Volume 27H for a major excerpt from this largely reliable book .
Macher, Hannes S. (hrsg). Ludwig I, König von Bayern, Gedichte; Pfaffenhofen: Ludwig,
1980.
See Volume 9Q for some of Ludwig’s poems about LM.
Maillier, Charles. Trois Journalistes Drouais: Brisset, Dujarier, Bure; Paris: Promotion et
Edition, 1968.
See Volume 5D. Probably the best source on Dujarier.
Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of: Memoirs of an Ex-Minister. An
Autobiography of the Rt. Honourable Earl of Malmesbury; London:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1884.
See Volume 3C for the pertinent excerpt.
Mann, Golo. Ludwig I, König von Bayern; Schaftlach: Oreos, 1989.
See Volume 16C for the full text of this masterful short introduction to King Ludwig.
Marberry, M.M. “How New York greeted King Ludwig’s girl friend” in American
Heritage,
February 1955, 6:56-61.
See Volume 24J for this article, which contains little or nothing that is new.
Maretzek, Max. Revelations of an Opera Manager in 19th Century America; New York:
Dover Publications, 1968 (reprint of 1855 edition of Crotchets and Quavers).
See Volume 26E for a few relevant excerpts
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 29
Marshall, Edison. The Infinite Woman; New York, Farrar & Straus, 1950, paperback
reprint, Garden City Books, 1950.
fiction
Massett, Stephen C. "Drifting About" or What "Jeems Pipes of Pipesville" Saw and Did;
New York: G.W. Carleton Co., 1863.
brief mention of meeting LM in Grass Valley
Maurois, Andre. Les trois Dumas; Paris: Hachette, 1957.
See Volume 9M for the text of a letter of LM to Dumas in April 1847.
Mayer, Gustav. Friedrich Engels. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920.
See Volume 18Q for this brief speculation about whether Engels was the author of a
satire on LM.
Merkle, Ludwig (hrsg). Der bayerische Schwann, Gedichte des König Ludwig von Bayern;
München: 1979.
This edition of some of King Ludwig’s poems contains interesting commentary on him
as poet.
Metternich, Prince Clemens von: Aus Metternichs nachgelassene Papieren. Band 8, Teil 3.
Wien: Braumüller, 1884.
See Volume 20C for the passage where Metternich mistakenly records he just missed
contact with LM.
Miller, Ferdinand von. Jugenderinnerungen; o O, o J [München, c. 1929].
contains an interesting first-hand account of the incident when LM visited the great
Munich bronze foundry in November 1847
Mirecourt, Eduard de (psn of Jacquot, Charles J.B.). Lola Montès. Les Contemporains.Pt. 78;
Paris: J.P. Roret et Cie, 1857.
See Volume 33G for the complete text of this extremely unreliable but very influential
biography of LM.
Mola oder Tanz und Weltgeschichte. Eine spanische-deutsche Erzählung. Leipzig: Cabinet
für
Literatur, Ernst Keil & Comp., 1847.
See Volume 11 for the full text of this curious roman à clef, more or less, published
during LM’s stay in Munich.
Mollalontez. See Oettinger, Eduard Maria.
Montez, Lola. Anecdotes of Love. Being a true account of the most remarkable events
connected with the history of love, all ages and among all nations; New York: Dick
and Fitzgerald, 1858.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 30
This book is nothing but a pastiche of material from other sources. It is doubtful that
LM had anything to do with it, other than perhaps drafting the brief introduction.
Montez, Lola. The Arts of Beauty or Secrets of a Lady's Toilet with Hints to Gentlemen on
the Art of Fascination; New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858.
See a copy of the 1978 reprint in Volume 35E. This is probably LM’s most popular
book, which has been translated and reprinted many times.
Montez, Lola. L'Arte de la Beauté, translated and with preface and notes by H.E. Chevalier;
Paris: 1862. There was another Paris edition, by J.Tauride, in 1879, reprinted in
1882..
See Volume 34D for Chevalier’s preface.
Montez, Lola. El Arte de la Belezza o Secretos del Tocador; San Juan: Imp. Militaire,
1862.
Montez, Lola. L'arte della bellezza nella donna. Segreti della teletta; Napoli: Bideri, 1909.
Montez, Lola. Lectures of Lola Montez with a full and complete Autobiography of her
Life, etc.; New York, Rudd & Carleton, 1858, reprinted 1859. Another US
edition in 1858, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers.
See Volume 35A for the full text of the Philadelphia edition. This is an essential LM
document. There were several British editions and one Spanish edition in Barcelona in 1876,
which reportedly omitted the lecture on Romanism.
Montez, Lola. Memoiren der Lola Montez (Gräfin von Landsfeld); Berlin: C.Schultze, 1851;
reprinted (hsg von Kertin Wilhelms), Frankfurt/M: Zweitausendeins, 1986; 2 vols.
The whole tangled question of LM’s 1851 memoirs is discussed in detail in a note in
Volume 25A. This Berlin edition, which I believe is largely apochryphal, is widely assumed
to be the only version of the 1851 memoirs and was highly regarded enough to be reprinted
in 1986. A copy of the reprint, with a few of my annotations, is a part of this collection.
Montès, Lola: Mémoires de Lola Montès; Berlin, C.Schultze, 1851; one vol in 8o.
I have not seen this French version of LM’s memoirs also published by C. Schultze in
1851. Newspaper advertisements indicate that Schultze was issuing two versions of the
memoirs in installments as they appeared in Le Pays, one in the original French and a
German translation. When publication in Le Pays ceased, the Schultze’s French version
apparently ceased, too, since there is a single volume in his edition of the French text, as
opposed to the NINE volumes of the German edition. I think it is clear that if Schultze had
had access to the French original, he would have published it in full. The fact he did not
indicates that the German version is not a translation but an original work for the most part.
Montez, Lola: Memoiren von Lola Montez, Gräfin von Landsfeld, aus dem
Französischen übertragen von Ludwig Fort; Grimma & Leipzig, Druck und Verlag
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 31
des Verlags-Comptoirs; Europaische Bibliothek der neuen belletristischen Literatur,
V. Serie, Bände 443, 444, 483; 1851.
This is the version of LM’s 1851 memoirs that I consider an authentic completion. It
is an extremely rare book. I know of only two copies, plus the photocopy in Volume 25B.
Montez, Lola: Memorias (tr D.A. Badia y D.J. Tora); Barcelona, 1851.
I have not seen this Spanish version of the memoirs and do not know if it is the
truncated version published in Le Pays or a translation of the Berlin or Grimma editions
.
Montez, Lola. Memoiren der Lola Montez; Berlin: Schnitzer, 1851, 6 Hefte. 256 pp.
I have not seen this version of the memoirs. The fact that it consists of only six Hefte
would seem to indicate that it contains a translation of only what appeared in Le Pays.
Montez, Lola. Memoiren der Lola Montez , translated by A(ugust) Diezmann; Leipzig:
Hartung, 1851; 164 p, also 2nd ed. (Heft 1-4 in 1st ed; Heft 1 of 48 pp only in 2nd ed)
This is another version I have not seen, but, again, it is so short that it can only be a
translation of the installments from Le Pays and nothing more.
Montez, Lola: Memoiren (hsg von Dankmar Asch); Berlin, o J (c 1890); 8o (also appeared as
Pt 4 of Menschen, Berühmte, und ihre Geschichte; Berlin, 1894; 8o
This is a reworking by Asch of LM’s 1851 memoirs in a new form. The
transformation is so complete, it is difficult to tell whether Asch used the Berlin edition or the
Grimma edition.
Montès, Lola: Réponse de Lola Montès au poète Barthelemi qui l'engageait à user de son
crédit sur le roi de Bavière pour lui faire octroyer une carte; Carpentras: de Devillers,
1853; 8 p, 8o.
I have not seen this. The only copy I know of is in the rare imprints section of the
Bibliothèque National in Paris. It obviously is not by LM, and if it is as insignificant as the
poem to which it purports to reply, it is not worth reading.
Moore, Lillian. “George Washington Smith” in Dance Index, June-August 1945, pages
135.
This valuable article about LM’s little known choreographer is in Volume 26C.
88-
Moreno, Enrique: Lola Montez. Reina de Reyes. Garbo y Vision de una vida; Madrid: 1944.
A piece of junk
Moreton de Chabrillian, Elisabeth, Comtesse de, AKA Céleste Mogador. Un Deuil au
Bout du Monde; Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1877.
See Volume 29C for an excerpt from these often confused memoirs.
Moscheles, Ignatz. Recent Music and Musicians. As described in the Diaries and
Correspondence of Ignatz Moscheles. edited by his wife. and adapted from the
original German by A.D.Coleridge; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1875.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 32
See excerpt at Volume 5H. A brief mention of LM and background on the Beethoven
festival.
Müller, Karl Alexander von. Am Rand der Geschichte; München: Carl Hanser, 1957.
See Volume 8J for the chapter “Lola Montez und ein Münchner Polizeidirektor,”
which is based on unpublished sources, including Freiherr von Pechmann’s own account. A
very valuable work.
Münchener Fleigenblätter. Humoreske aus den Februartagen 1848. Leipzig: Ignaz Jackowitz,
1848.
See Volume 18D. A not very funny satirical play about LM in Berliner dialect.
Murrell, Shirley (psn of Olive Scott Hansen 1899- ). Royal Interlude; London: R.Hale,
(1962).
fiction
Neville, Amelia Ransom: The Fantasic City; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
See Volume 27G for excerpts from this unreliable memoir.
Nickel, Dietmar. Die Revolution 1848-49 in Augsburg und Bayerisch Schwaben;
Augsburg: Seitz, 1965.
See Volume 18K.
Oberreuter, August. Heinrich LXXII von Reuß-Lobenstein-Ebersdorf im Lichte der
Geschichte und der mundliche Überlieferung. Nach einem Vortrag von August
Oberreuther in Heimat und Geschichte Verein Zeulenroda, 15 Februar 1943;
Zeulenroda: A. Oberreuter, 1943; 36 p.
nothing particularly significant here; a collection of some of the legends about
Heinrich LXXII
Odell, George C.D.: Annals of the New York Stage; New York, Columbia University
Press, 1927-?.
See excerpt in Volume 26F.
[Oettinger, Eduard Maria]. Mollalontez: Leipzig, Philipp Reclam jun., 1847.
See Volume 16U for the full text of this not terribly amusing but apparently very
successful pamphlet.
Oliver, Maj.Gen. J.R.(compiler): The Olivers of Clognafoy, 3rd ed; London: The Army-Navy
Cooperative Society, 1904
See Volume 2D for the pertinent excerpt.
Ollivier, M. Daniel (ed.). Correspondance de Liszt et de la Comtesse d’Agoult, Volume 2,
1840-1864. Paris: Bernard Grasset, nd.
See Volume 4F for the excerpts mentioning LM, which are sparse.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 33
Ostini, Fritz. Wilhelm von Kaulbach; Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1906.
Valuable particularly for its reproduction of Kaulbach’s now-lost sketch of LM; see it
in Volume 46B.
Ottomeyer, Hans (hrgr). Biedermeyers Glück und Ende,...die gestörte Idylle 1815-1848;
München: Hugendubel, 1987.
See Volume 16B for excerpts from this very interesting exhibit catalog.
Papon, Auguste: Lola Montès. Mémoires accompagnés de lettres intimes de SM le
roi de Bavière et de Lola Montès; Nyon: J. Desoche, 1849.
See Volume 21A for a complete copy of all of his blackmail book that Papon ever
managed to publish.
[Papon, Auguste, et al]. The Memoirs and Private History of Lola Montes, etc. Paris:
Gaglignani, [1850].
See Volume 21B. Although Papon’s name appears nowhere, this is an English
translation of his book plus a final chapter added anonymously to bring LM’s story up to the
first weeks of 1850.
Papon, Auguste. Memoiren nach Vertrauten Briefen des Königs von Bayern und der Lola
Montez und bis jetzt noch unbekannten Poesien und Documenten, polit. und
literarischen Inhalts (trans Lichterfeld); Mannheim: Bensheimer, 1849; 64 p
I have not seen this version, but based on the pages, it cannot be anything more than
a reprint of Papon’s Nyon editon.
Papon, Auguste und Andere: Memoiren in Begleitung vertrauter Briefe des Königs von
Bayern und Lola Montez. Aus dem Französisch; Stuttgart: J.Scheible, 1849.
The complete text is on the Microfilm in this collection and excerpts from it are in
Volume 22. This is a bizarre work, beginning with a German translation of Papon, followed
by hundreds of pages of fantasy, including Lt. James’s diaries! Strangely, some of the
material appeared in LM’s 1851 Grimma memoirs, leading to the conclusion that they draw
on a common source, whether LM’s stories or a lost written source.
Pask, Edward. Enter the Colonies, Dancing; Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979.
This is a very unreliable book, but it does have a good reproduction of a fairly rare
lithograph of LM, a copy of which hangs on the wall of the author’s office as archivist for the
Australian ballet. Take a look at Volume 32G.
Pearl, Cyril: Always Morning. The Life of Richard Henry "Orian" Horne; Melbourne:
F.W.Cheshire, 1960.
See Volume 29E for some valuable comments in this biography an admirer of LM in
Australia.
Peißner, Elias. The American Question in Its National Aspect; New York: H.H.Lloyd, 1861.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 34
An interesting and good-sized book, completed by Peißner just as LM was dying on
the eve of civil war. Peißner’s solution to the slavery question was simple, or perhaps
simplistic: he wanted to gut the Fugitive Slave Act by insisting that slaves be treated exactly
like all other property, and since there is no provision in law (or so he claimed -- didn’t he
think of domestic animals?) for the return to the owner of property that runs away, so there
should be no provision for the return of slaves. The book doesn’t tell us a lot new about
Peißner.
Pellissier, Pierre. Émile de Girardin. Prince de la presse. Paris: Denoël, 1985.
See Volume 5E. Nothing directly about Dujarier, but some background on his
partner.
Phillips, Catherine Coffin: Portsmouth Plaza. The Cradle of San Francisco; San Francisco:
John Henry Nash, 1932.
See Volume 27J for a reproduction from the book of the parish register entry for
LM’s marriage at the Mission Dolores, the only thing of importance about LM in the book.
Plötz, Johann von. Der verwunschene Prinz. Schwak in drei Aufzügen. München: Gg.
Franz’sche Buchhandlung, n.d.
See Volume 8H for excerpts from this play, by a man who became part of LM’s circle
in Munich, that was performed the night of her Munich debut.
Podewils, H. von. Tragödie des Ruhms: Ein Lebensroman um Lola Montez; 1955
fiction
Polska Akademja Umiejelnosci. Polski Slownik Biograficzny. Krakow, 1935.
See Volume 3N for the entry on “Abramowicz, Ignacy.”
Pomerantz, Herman. Bolero; New York: 1937.
fiction
Posse, Ernst. “Lola Montez, Metternich und der Weinsberger Geisterturm” in Historische
Zeitschrift, Volume 140, pages 348-354.
See Volume 18-O for this debunking of the nonsense about LM and Kerner.
Poths-Wegner, Friedrich: Lola Montez. Historischer Roman; Leipzig: Paul List, [1902].
One of the most widely known novels about LM. A brief excerpt is in Volume 39G.
Pottendorf, Eric (psn of Husak, Grete). Lola Montez. Die spanische Tänzerin; ZurichWien: Amalthea Verlag, 1955.
fiction
Praag, Marinus Maurits van. Lola en Ludwig; s'Gravenhage, 1962.
treats the affair between LM and Ludwig, based largely on Corti’s account; nothing
new here
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 35
Prantl, Karl von. Geschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Ingolstadt, Landshut,
München, Band 1. Aalen: Scientia, 1968 (reprint of the 1872 edition).
See Volume 18T for a brief excerpt
Pressler, Christine: Gustav Kraus, 1804-1852. München: Monographie und
Kritische Katalog, 1977.
See Volume 17-O for the sketches Kraus did of the events surrounding LM’s flight
from Munich. Enlarged versions are in Volume 46C.
Pudelek, Janina. “The Warsaw Ballet under the Directorships of Maurice Plon and Filippo
Taglioni, 1832-1852” from Dance Chronicle, Volume 10.
See Volume 3-O for the pertinent text about LM’s visit to Warsaw.
Pulz, Waltraud. “Lola-Montez-Darstellungen als Indikator für Sexualstrukturen im
bayerischen Alltagsleben der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts” in Oberbayerisches
Archiv für vaterländische Geschichte, Band 107, 1982, pages 303-330.
A large hunk of sociological gobbledygook, but you’ll find it all in Volume 39M.
Q (psn of C.J.Rosenberg?): You Have Heard of Them; New York: Redfield, 1854
See excerpt at Volume 3H and on Microfilm. Even during LM’s lifetime, this book
had the effect of creating the legend that she was hooted off the stage at her London debut.
Lumley’s memoirs and all the press accounts of the time tell a different story.
Raimund, Guido (hsg). Im Tricot die Welt alarmiert. Erlebnisse einer Tänzerin; Berlin: 1894.
I have not seen this, but it is reported to be the same as the version of LM’s memoirs
prepared by Dankmar Asch, q.v. supra.
Rauh, Reinhold. Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse. München: Heyne, 1992.
A respectable job, but there is very little new here. Rauh has largely reworked
previous biographies, but with enough good sense to omit their absurdities and speculation.
A copy of this biography is in this collection.
Recht, Camille. Die alte Photographie; Paris und Leipzig: 1931.
This is the best source for a photograph of a woman with a whip that purports to be
LM, at page 47. See my discussion of the question in Volume 46B.
Reis, Kurt. Lola Montez und Ludwig von Bayern. Roman; Wiesbaden: Löwit, 1970 (reprint
of Costello, above).
fiction
Reiter, Hermann. Die Revolution von 1848/49 in Altbayern. Ihre sozialen und mentalen
Voraussetzungen und ihr Verlauf. München: UNI-Druck, 1983.
See an excerpt in Volume 18M
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 36
“Revue Politique -- Bavière” from Le Correspondent, 1847, Volume 17, pages 626-627.
See Volume 9E.
Ringhoffer, Karl (hsg). Im Kampfe für Preußens Ehre. Aus dem Nachlaß des Grafen
Albrecht v. Bernstoff, etc; Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1906.
See Volume 16W for an amusing letter concerning LM from this book.
Ringseis, Emile (hsg). Erinnerungen des Dr. J.N. von Ringseis; 1886, 4 vols.
Volume 3, pages 265-274 are of some interest.
Rogers, Andy. A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin' Rough and Ready; Rough and
Ready, CA.: 1952.
For the important portions, and some of them are very important, of this semi-literate
pamphlet, see Volume 37G.
“Roi de Bavière et Lola Montès, Le” in Le Correspondent, 1848, Volume 21, pages 612617.
See Volume 9E.
Rosenberg, Charles J.: see "Q"
Ross, Ishbel: The Uncrowned Queen. Life of Lola Montez. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
A not unimpressive attempt at a biography of LM, but through maddening
inaccuracies and frequent nonsense, ultimately a failure. An annotated copy is part of this
collection.
Ruederer, Joseph. Das Erwachen; München: Verlag der Süddeutschen Monatsheft, 1916
fiction
Ruederer, Joseph. Weißblaue Achtundvierziger; München: Süddeutsche Verlag, 1962;
(fuller version of postumous Das Erwachen, based on 1901 Neue Deutsche
Rundschau article)
fiction
Saint-Laurent, Cecil (Psn of Laurent-Cely, Jacques). Lola Montès; Paris: Presses Pocket,
1970 (earlier edition was source of the Ophüls screenplay; translated as Von Glück
und Trauer trunken. Lola Montez; Bonn: Verlag der Europaischen Bücherei, 1956,
translated from French; with photos from Ophüls film)
fiction
Sala, George A.: The Life and Adventures of George Sala, Volume 1; New York: Scribner's
Sons, 1895.
See Volume 20E for a brief memoir of LM in London in 1849.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 37
Saxon, A.H.: P.T.Barnum. The Legend and the Man; New York: Columbia Univ.
Press, 1989.
See Volume 24I for an excerpt about Barnum’s refusal to manage LM and the
controversy around it.
Schidlof, Auguste. Die Frau mit 100 Abenteurs. Ein Lola Montez Roman; Leipzig: Vogel
&
Vogel, 1921; (Band 6 "Der Liebeshof").
fiction
Schiller, Herbert (hsg): Briefe an Cotta, Band III, Von Vormärz bis Bismarck,
1833-1863; Stuttgart: Cotta, 1934.
See Volume 9N and Volume 12E for this letters that give a few insights on how a well
informed editor outside Munich saw events when LM was there.
Schleucher, Kurt: Das Leben der Amalia Schoppe und Joanna Schopenhauer; Darmstadt,
1978.
See Volume 17A for an excerpt from this book about Peißner.
Schmeller, Johann Andreas. Tagebücher 1801-1859, Band II (Hsg Paul Ruf); München:
Beck, 1956.
See Volume 16H. Occasionally pertinent, but mostly valuable for a sense of daily life
in Munich in LM’s time there.
Schmidt, Berthold: Geschichte des Reußenlandes; Berlin, Kanitz, 1923.
Schmidt, Berthold (hsg): Die Reussen. Genealogie des Gesamthauses Reuß.Schleiz:
F.Webers
Nachfolger, 1903.
These two volumes by Schmidt have little or nothing to say about LM, but they do
make understanding the world of Heinrich LXXII a lot easier.
Scholl, Günter (psn of. Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg). Skandal um Lolita. Die Tänzerin
Lola Montez und der Bayernkönig (Berühmte Liebespaare, Heft 10); Bad Pyrmont:
Neues Verlag für Volksliteratur, 1954.
fiction
Schorn, Karl. Lebenserinnerungen; Bonn: P. Hanstein, 1898; 2 vols.
See excerpts at Volume 5J. An interesting first-hand account of LM at the Beethoven
festival in Bonn.
Seacole, Mary: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands; London: James
Blackwood, 1858.
This is the book LM denounced in her autobiographical lectures. She was probably
correct that the author wrongly has her dressed as a man and falsely puts her in Cruces,
when the route LM took through Panama did not pass through Cruces. But the vehemence of
LM’s denunciation does seem a bit much.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 38
Sietz, Max. “Die Februar- und Märzunruhen in München 1848” in Oberbayerisches Archiv
für vaterländische Geschichte, Band 78, 1953, pages 1-104.
See Volume 17G for this extremely well researched and written article on the last
days of LM’s Munich stay and Ludwig’s abdication.
Sepp, Johann N.: Ludwig Augustus, König von Bayern; Schaffenhausen: Fr. Hurter, 1869
See Volume 16I for excerpts from this first biography of King Ludwig. Although Sepp
knew the king, this work is less than totally reliable.
Seymour, Bruce. Lola Montez. A Life; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
What I obviously regard as the definitive work, to date, on LM. I trust some user of
this archive will someday write a better biography of LM. A draft of this book, longer and
with more specific footnoting than the published version, is found in Volumes 44 and 45.
Sherman, Robert L. Chicago Stage. Its Records and Achievements. Chicago: 1947.
Not much here, but see Volume 33F.
Shoemaker, Samuel M. Calvary Church, Yesterday and Today: New York, 1936
Valuable for the fine photograph of Francis Lister Hawks. See Volume 46C.
Siebert, : Addressbuch für München; München: 1850.
This is very handy for getting names right, finding where people lived in relation to
each other, and locating various offices and embassies around Munich.
Sigma. “Lola Montez w Warszawie” from Tyodnik Illustowany, No. 21, 1912.
See Volume 3Q for the full text with an English translation. This is a very valuable
article on LM’s sojourn in Warsaw.
Simon, Ludwik. “L’extraordinaire aventure de Lola Montez,” in Archives internationales de
la danse, October 1934.
See Volume 3P for the full text. A valuable account of LM’s Warsaw visit.
Social Life and Manners in Australia, Notes of Eight Years' Experience of a Resident;
London: 1861, Longman, Green, Longmand & Roberts pp152-53
On pages 152-153 there is a brief description of LM attending the garrison
theatricals in Melbourne on 29 September 1855.
Spindler, Max. Erbe und Verpflichtung. Aufsätze und Vorträge zur bayerischen
Geschichte (hsg Andreas Kraus); München: Beck, 1966.
See Volume 16F fot the article “Die politische Wendung von 1847/48 in Bayern.”
Spindler, Max(hrsg): Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte, Band 4: München:
Beck'sche Verlag, n.d.
See Volume 16E for relevant portions of this reference work.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 39
Spindler, Max. “Die politische Wendung von 1847/48 in Bayern” in Bayern, Staat und
Kirche, Land und Reich. Forschungen zur bayerischen Geschichte. München: Karl
Zink, [1961].
See Volume 16G.
Steele, Rowena Granice. Lola Montez. Auburn, CA: 1862.
See Volume 28F. An interesting brief memoir of LM in Grass Valley by a woman
who knew her only by reputation.
Stern, Madeleine B. Purple Passage. The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie; Norman, OK: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
A good biography of “Minnie Montez” and a source for the elusive letters of Noel
Follin.
Stern, Philip Van Doren. Lola: A Love Story; New York: Rinehart, 1949.
fiction
Straub, Willy. “Lola Montez in Würzburg” in Fränkischer Bund, Volume 2, 1926, pages
373-374.
See Volume 9P. Nothing very new here.
Stümcke, Heinrich. “Ein vormärzliches Tanzidyll” in Bühne und Welt, 7. Jahrgang, 1.
Halbjahr, 1904-1905, pages 189-196.
See Volume 18R for this rather rambling article relating to the production of Joseph
Rüderer’s play about LM.
Swainson, W.P. “Thomas Lake Harris” in Three Famous Occultists; London: Rider
& Co., n.d.
See Volume 33D for this, perhaps the best source of information on a man LM
admired greatly.
Tarres, Francisco. Lola Montes; Barcelona: Editions G.P., 1959.
junk
Teichmann, Hugo. Lola Montez. Das Leben einer Abenteuerin: Heidenau-Nord: Freya,
1921.
fiction
Tinling, Marion. Lola Montez in Grass Valley; Carmichael: 1980.
nothing new nor particularly reliable
“Trial for Murder in France -- Lola Montes” in The American Law Journal, Vol 8, New
Series Vol. 1, July 1848, pages 1-9.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 40
See the article at Volume 35B. LM cited it in her autobiographical lectures to give
her a reputation as a staunch republican. The anonymous author was supposedly a
distinguised Pennsylvania judge.
Trowbridge, W.R.H. Seven Splendid Sinners; London: T.Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1908.
The chapter about LM, which is not bad without being terribly good, either, is in
Volume 42C.
Uhde, Werner: Hermann Freiherr von Rotenhan. Eine politische Biographie; München: Beck,
1933.
contains the story of Ludwig’s decision to abdicate
Um Lola Montez. Blätter aus dem Kieler Theatermuseum. Kiel: Wiss. Ges. f. Literatur u.
Theater, 1930.
A slim publication with some caricatures of LM (one is in Volume 46B) and a
facsimile of a note from King Ludwig to his police director (see Volume 9G).
Vacano, Emil Mario. Blaues Blut, Handbuch der Noblesse, Moralische Vorlesungen; Berlin:
Lassar, 1864.
This is a pernicious, lying book. Vacano claims to report a lecture of LM’s, which he
says he wrote down from memory after her death, since she never wrote any of her lectures
down. What he writes is total and complete fabrication and nonsense.
Valentin, Veit. Fürst Karl Leiningen und das deutsche Einheitsproblem; Stuttgart: Union
Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1910.
See Volume 9W for excerpts that include parts of Prince Leiningen’s correspondence
with Prince Albert about LM in Munich.
Valentin, Veit. Geschichte der deutschen Revolutionen von 1848-1849, Band 1; Köln,
Keiepenheuer & Witsch, oJ.
See Volume 18A for pertinent excerpts.
[Vandam, Albert Dresden]. An Englishman in Paris; New York: D.Appleton and Co.,
1892.
See excerpts at Volume 5N. This book is the sole source for a number of legends
about LM, including her purported intention to “hook a prince,” Dumas’s purported remark
that she had the evil eye and would bring trouble to any man who was with her, and the
allegation that Flaubert attended the Beauvallon trial in Rouen. Vandam was hardly born at
the time of the events he recounts. As he revealed in My Paris Note-book, he had a few score
pages of notes from an unnamed Englishman who really was living in Paris when LM was
there, and he spun these notes into a very good-sized book. There is no way of telling how
much of the book is based on the notes and how much is pure fantasy by Vandam. And of
course, there is no way of knowing whether the notes were reliable information in the first
place. A very untrustworthy book.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 41
[Vandam, Albert Dresden]. My Paris Note-book; Philadelphia, J.B.Lippincott Co., 1894.
See Volume 5-O for an excerpt explaining how much of An Englishman in Paris was
the author’s fantasy.
Varley, James F. Lola Montez. The California Adventures of Europe’s Notorious Courtesan;
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1996.
An annotated copy of this work is a part of the collection
Vehse, Eduard. Bayerische Hofgeschichten; München: Joachim von Dellbrück, 1922.
See Volume 16 for an excerpt.
Veron, Louis. Mémoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris; Paris: Libraries Nouvelle, 1856, 5 vols.
nothing directly about LM here, but volume 3 has some very good material on the
theaters in Paris and the lot of ballet girls
Venedey, Jacob Eduard. Die spanische Tänzerin und die deutsche Freiheit; Paris:
Wittersheim, 1847.
Although this is frequently mentioned in bibliographies about LM, it is really nothing
much more than a semi-coherent, disgruntled pamphlet by a would-be revolutionary. His
basic theme is that LM may be a foul tool for reform, but better reform through her than
none at all. Only about the first third of the 114 page pamphlet has anything to do with LM.
Venedey’s text was used to pad out the Berlin edition of LM’s 1851 memoirs, and the part
relevant to LM can be found on pages 1401-1416 of the Zweitausendeins reprint, in this
collection.
Viel-Castel, Comte Horace de. Memoires du Regne de Napoleon III 1851-64; Paris: 1883.
See Volume 24D for some excerpts about Papon in Paris and Fiorentino.
Vogt, Karl Wilhelm. Das Nachtlager in Blutenburg oder der Lola Montez letztes Verweilen
in
Münchens Nähe. Nach dem Berichte eines beglaubigten Augenzeugen, welcher das
Angegebene eidlich zu erhärten bereit ist, aufgezeichnet; 1848; 4 p, 8o.
See the text in Volume 17Mc
[Vogt, Karl Wilhelm]. Lola Montez mit ihren Anhänger und Münchens Bürger und
Studenten,
usw; München: 1848.
See text in Volume 17Mc
Wagner, Cosima. Diaries 1869-1883; New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 19781983; 2 vols
See Volume 5 I for accounts of two conversations about LM.
Wagner, Hans. Die Tochter Babels. Ein Roman um Lola Montez; Leipzig: Bohn, 1937;
fiction
Wagner, Richard. Mein Leben; München: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 42
See Volume 4H. Only an indirect reference to LM.
Walker, Alan. Franz Liszt. Vol 1. The Virtuoso Years. 1811-1847; New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1983; 481 p
See Volume 4G and Volume 5K for excerpts. Nothing very new here about Liszt and
LM but a good debunking of some of the legends.
Weiglin, Dr. Paul. “Die spanische Tänzerin. Ein Stück Weltgeschichte im Unterrock” in
Velhagen und Klasing’s Almanach für 1920, pages 98-117.
See Volume 16K for this rather unreliable popular account.
Wells, Evelyn. Beautiful Love Story: The Loves of Lola Montez; San Francsico: 1933.
fiction
Werner, Axel. “Lasaulx und die vorrevolutionäre Münchner Szene im Februar 1847” in
Oberbayerisches Archiv für vaterländische Geschichte, Band 93, 1971, pages 185189.
See Volume 16R for Lasaulx’s own account of the fatal faculty senate meeting.
Wilk, Gerard H. “Lola Montez. Eine historische Reportage” in Der Monat, 7. Jahrgang,
Heft 87, 1955, pages 22-32.
A piece of junk, but you can find it complete in Volume 39J.
Williams, Adrian (ed.). Portrait of Liszt. By Himself and his Contemporaries. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1990.
See Volume 4E. The excerpt here is from Lewald, Fanny. Zwölf Bilder nach dem
Leben. Berlin: 1888. The original German text is in Volume 4A.
Wilmes, Jacqueline & Prezelin, Jacques: Lola Montez. Pavane pour un roi poète; Lausanne:
Rencontre, 1967.
See Volume 24G for a facsimile of an album page by LM from 1851.
Wintersteiner, Marianne. Lola Montez. Romanbiographie; München: Nymphenburger,
1990.
fiction
Withers, William Branwell. History of Ballarat; Ballarat: F.W. Niven & Co, 1887.
See Volume 32F for a brief anecdote of LM.
Wolf, Joseph Heinrich. Die allgemeine politisch-moralische Volkserhebung in München am
3.
und 4. März 1848. München: Wolf & Dreschler, 1848.
See Volume 18C.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 43
Wolf, Joseph Heinrich. Geshichtliche Walhalla der grossen Fest- und Versöhnungswoche
zwischen König und Volk in München, vom 6. -13. März 1848; München,
Dr.Wolf
und Dreschler, 1848.
See Volume 18C.
Wright, E.W.(ed.). Lewis and Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle:
1967, reprint of the 1895 edition.
See Volume 32H for a note about the Jane Falkenburg.
Wyndham, Horace. The Magnificent Montez. From Courtesan to Convert; New York:
Hillman-Curl, n.d.
A good effort at a biography of LM. An annotated copy is part of this collection.
Xylander, R. and Sutner, C. von. Geschichte des 1. Feldartillerie Regiments König Regent
Luitpold, Band IV. Berlin: Mittler und Sohn, 1911.
See Volume 8L for an excerpt detailing the service record and sad fate of Lt.
Nußbammer.
Yeowell, John. The French Chapel Royal in London. London: Washburn, n.d.
See Volume 20G for this brief history of the church where LM first married Heald.
Ziegler, Rudolf O. Lola Montez und andere Novellen; Stuttgart und Leipzig: Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, o J (pages 1-80 are LM).
fiction
Zentner, Wilhelm (hsg): Gastfreundliches München. Das Anlitz einer Stadt im Spiegel
ihrer Gäste; München: B&G, 1946.
See Volume 9J for the report of one Adolf Kußmaul’s visit to Munich when he saw
LM.
Zuber, Karl-Heinz. Der "Fürst Proletarier" Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein 1791-1870.
München: Beck, 1978.
See Volume 16X for excerpts from this biography.
Zucconi, Angela. Lodovico Innamorato; Milano-Roma: Rizzoli, 1944.
Although it concerns itself primarily with Ludwig’s Italian love, a countess in
Florence, it is interesting in that it shows how quickly she heard about LM in Munich and
how much she was concerned about her.
STAGE WORKS, BOTH PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED,
ABOUT LOLA MONTEZ
Bitsch, Heinrich. Lola Montez. Ein Märchen aus Bayern; 1949
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 44
Böttcher, Maximilian. Mann im Herbst. Ludwig und Lola. Eine Revolutionskomödie;
Eisenach: P. Rührer, 1933.
Carter, J., coreographer. The Life and Death of Lola Montez; 1954
a ballet
Caton, Edward, choreographer. Lola Montez; 1946
a ballet
Coyne, J. Stirling. Pas de Fascination; or Catching a Governor! A Farce in One Act,
originally performed at the Theater Royal, Haymarket under the title, Lola Montes
or A Countess for an Hour. London: National Acting Drama Office,n.d.
See Volume 18S for the full text of this enduring farce that followed LM around the
globe and survived her by some years.
Craig, Robert. Red Bumble Bee
This is an unpublished drama of an encounter of LM and Joaquin Murietta; premiere
San Francisco 1939; there is a typescript in NYPL.
Fentsch, Eduard (writing as Frater Hilarius): Südliche Rache. Fresko-Abenteuerin 1 Akt;
München: bei Leonhard Henzel, 1848.
Goetz, Wolfgang: Kavaliere; o J
Graff, Siegmund & Brieger, A.: Zauberine Lola (Musical); 1937
Hilarius, Frater (see Fentsch, above)
Martin, Gustav. Lola Montez, ein Schauspiel in 5 Akten; Berlin: Vertriebstelle des
Verbandes
deutscher bühnenschriftsteller und bühnenkomponisten, 1929.
Massine, Leonide, choreographer. Bacchanale
This balle on LMt, to the bacchanale music from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, had sets by
Salvador Dali and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC on 9 November 1939.
Münchener Fliegeblätter. Humoreske aus den Februartagen 1848; Leipzig: bei Ignaz
Jackwitz,
1848.
This rather flat satire in Berliner dialect is variously attributed to Johann Wilhelm
Christern or Adolf Glasbrenner. The complete text is in Volume 18D.
Obermayer, Klaus. Lola Montez, text by Herbert Rosendorfer; 1985
an opera
Ophüls, Max: Lola Montez; a 1955 film, with screenplay by Jacques Natanson, Annette
Wademant, & Max Ophüls.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **** PAGE 45
Paul, Adolf. Lola Montez; München: A.Langen, 1917.
This is the story of LM's love in Spain for a bandit who is executed after she rejects
his love; it may be based on the anonymous biography from Dr. Potthof Verlag.
Pick, Günther, choreographer. Lola Montez, ballet to music of Offenbach, premiere at the
Gärtnerplatz theater in Munich, 1993.
Rauh, Reinhold: Lolitta und Ludwig; a piece for two actors drawn for the correspondence of
LM and King Ludwig; 1995.
Reuderer, Joseph: Die Morgenrote; München: 1913.
This play takes place from afternoon of 9 Feb 48 to evening of 10 Feb.;it is the
second version; first version produced 1904 in Berlin under Max Reinhardt, published by G.
Bondi, Berlin, 1905 but banned in München; this publication permitted only after the death
of Prince Luitpold in 1912.
Sheehan, Perley Poore. Lola Montez, her pagan majesty; or Queen Errant, based on the life
story of Lola Montez; Los Angeles: Mary P.Bagy, (1936); 34 pp
Totheroh, Dan. Dark Comet. An Episode in the Career of Lola Montez in One Act, Plays for
Stage and Study, 9th Series; New York: Samuel French, 1938.
This is set in Hull's newspaper office in San Francisco with his sister, LM, and
Caroline Chapman.
Vives, Amadeo: Lola Montez, words by Fiacro Iraizoz
A Spanish zarzuella
Ware, Charles, Jr. (really Pray, Isaac Clark, Jr.?): Lola Montez in Bavaria
This play, LM’s signature piece, is apparently lost except for a couple of brief
passages quoted in a review..
Wocher-Schäffer, Caroline von: Lola Montez. Originallustspiel in 4 Akten. Lahr, 1874.