Gertrud Elisabeth Mara [née Schmelling]

(1749-1833)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 LBT ID: GeMara1833 VIAF ID: 5194963 LOC ID: n96076224	B/BAP: 1749-02-23 DIED: 1833-01-20
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German-born singer who performed in London from 1784; she was the wife of Giovanni Battista Mara (d. 1808).
REFERENCES TO Gertrud Elisabeth Mara [née Schmelling]: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 13 October 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1800 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 88