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Seekamp fought back, but Lola won the fight and he had to run away. Tickets to her shows sold out and she was right about the miners.

They threw gold nuggets on stage. The show was just as successful in Bendigo and Lola also visited the goldfields themselves, where the miners adored her. They admired her courage and her willingness to go down into the deepest mine shafts. Lola was probably glad she had visited Australia, because after she left, her life went downhill.

She had had a wonderful tour, even with those people who had been shocked by her act and complained. After all, Lola was used to shocking people. She enjoyed it! Even young ladies who nevertheless claim to be well-reared and cultured, sit all day at the latter-day gambling tables, where every decent impulse disintegrates. Hauser had met Lola in San Francisco, and was not surprised to encounter her again in Victoria. She had Tarot cards laid out.

Lola, reported Hauser, was very superstitious. The architects of this plan clearly had short memories. Their confidence in detention facilities might have been eroded by the disquieting events of November Just over a year later, Clara Du Val, common law wife of Henry Seekamp, edited the Ballarat Times while her husband was on trial for sedition in the wake of the Eureka Stockade. What is this country else but Australia? Commentators were apt to pass judgement on their appearance as well, particularly the nouveau riche penchant for outlandish displays of good fortune; for bling.

The wives were often diggers themselves, it should be added. But Kelly saved his most derogatory description for a humble washerwoman, who was, alas, not humble at all. The Bling! It was not only the miners who wanted to wear their pride in their freshly minted wealth on their sleeves — and fingers, wrists, necks and bosoms.

One of my favourite pieces in the exhibition is a brooch made in by Geelong jeweller William Paterson. And women who were supposed to accept any marriage proposal that was come to them and be grateful for it, now were finding, in Australia, that because there was this huge disproportion of the sexes, they could choose who they wanted to marry.

And this was unheard of. And there's all sorts of anxiety at the time around these gender power imbalances and reversals. And so Lola arrives right at that moment, and, in a way,she becomes a lightning rod for all of that controversy and all of that social anxiety about place - about women's place, about class.

So she was used in a sense as a way for society to be able to explore the tensions that were going on. More and more women have settled in Ballarat, so there's more families.

There's beginning to be a much greater concern about propriety in the behaviour of women, and modesty of dress and these kinds of matters. Clare: And so there's a lot of outcry, public outcry, about the more out-there aspects of her performances.

This was also the time people began calling her a courtesan , a old-fashioned name given to a woman who was a close friend, confidante and sexual companion to rich and powerful men. Many of her famous male friends were artists, writers, journalists, and army lieutenants. Such relationships gave her money and power, which meant independence uncommon for a 19th century woman. After a revolution in , during which King Ludwig I gave up his crown, she left for England and later moved to the United States of America, in There, she performed as a dancer and actor for the gold miners of San Francisco.

Then, in , she toured Australia and danced for the miners in Ballarat and Castlemaine , among other places. In California there is a mountain named in her honour, along with two lakes, and numerous books and movies are about her or feature characters based on her life.

She broke the rules, and lived as she pleased. Lola c. She was the first woman to be photographed smoking a cigarette. The following is a recipe for making another wash for the face, which is a favourite with the ladies of France. Take equal parts of the seeds of the melon pumpkin , gourd and cucumber , pounded till they are reduced to a powder; add to it sufficient fresh cream to dilute the flour [powder], then add milk enough to reduce the whole to a thin paste.

Add a grain of musk [taken from the body of animals like the musk deer] , and a few drops of the oil of lemon.