<P> In 1850 , Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P.T. Barnum . She gave 93 large - scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management . She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts , donating the proceeds to charities , principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden . With her new husband , Otto Goldschmidt , she returned to Europe in 1852 where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades , settling in England in 1855 . From 1882 , for some years , she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . </P>
<P> In 1850 , Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P.T. Barnum . She gave 93 large - scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management . She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts , donating the proceeds to charities , principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden . With her new husband , Otto Goldschmidt , she returned to Europe in 1852 where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades , settling in England in 1855 . From 1882 , for some years , she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . </P>
who introduced the swedish nightingale jenny lind to america
who introduced the swedish nightingale jenny lind to america
P.T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum