and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004. John Steane, The Grand Tradition, Duckworth, London, 1974. External links Letters to Francis Wilson Lee, 1886-1891. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. 1865 births 1952 deaths American operatic sopranos Musicians from Portland, Maine People from Bath, Maine 19th-century American women opera singers American stage actresses 20th-century American actresses