About the Author

Sarah Jenny Dunsmure is the great-great-granddaughter of Jenny Lind through her daughter Jenny Maude whose son Charles was the father of Sarah's mother. Sarah studied for the theatre but spent her working career in publishing and newspapers. Since 2005 she has been researching and writing Jenny Lind the Story of the Swedish Nightingale, tracing the singer's early years in Stockholm and following her extraordinary life through Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Britain and America. She is Honorary Member of the Jenny Lind Society.