>Leonora Braham's first husband, Frederick Barnes, shot himself in the head in front of her and their young son while the family was preparing for a "fairy picnic" in the garden of their Montreal home. >Returning to England in 1880 she created the roles of seven Gilbert and Sullivan heroines. During this time, she became increasingly dependent on alcohol to cope with the isolation and shame she felt despite her blossoming career. She secretly remarried and was dismissed from the D'Oyly Carte opera company as a result. She made a living from then on as a wandering performer alongside her husband (a tenor). >This second husband, J. Duncan Young, was confined to mental institution, plunging Braham into poverty in her final years. I've been reading about the D'Oyly Care company for a project recently, and I can't decide if Braham was a victim, or an early example of the BPD art hoe genre of woman.
Based D’Oyly Carte for firing her. That’s the correct way to handle these whores.
Neither, she was attracted to crazy men, and pursued them.
>>16534202I could have saved her.
>>16533792Arms like Popeye. May have been a husband beater.
>>16534493Big arms but she was super short (under five feet) so even a short Victorian man should have been able to take her. Her short stature is one the reasons she was able to convincingly play a 14 year old schoolgirl in the mikado despite being 32 years old.
>yeah Leo, I know your husband just turned his brain to goo in front of you and your infant son but we’re going to need you to sing this:https://youtu.be/mXWkIZUPmDY?si=Kl6yKFo6TZBFoNIz
>>16534202Where tf are these sorts of women now, and why aren’t they pursuing me?
