1.Who was Jenny Lind? What kind of music did she perform before her trip to the U.S?

2.What does Caswell mean by the "upper ten thousand?" (p. 322) What kind of music were they interested in? Why?

3.What was Lind's relationship to the upper ten thousand? Who did her performances interest?

4.What are the four virtues of the "Cult of True Womanhood?" How does Lind exemplify each of these virtues?

5.What is "democratic ideology" (p. 331)? How does Lind exemplify it?

6.Does this article shed any new light on the ideas of composers' and performers' music?

7.What stereotypes do women performers face today? Is there a new "Cult of True Womanhood?"