Nellie Melba (English Wikipedia)

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A similar course was followed by some other Australian singers: Florence Mary Wilson took the stage name Florence Austral, and Elsie Mary Fischer renamed herself Elsa Stralia – both after Australia; June Mary Gough adopted the name June Bronhill after Broken Hill, New South Wales.

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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography incorrectly gives Melba's mother the maiden name of Dorn. "Dow" is confirmed in Blainey 2008, p. 5, and Hetherington 1967, p. 17 Blainey, Ann (2008). I am Melba. Melbourne: Black Inc. ISBN 978-1-86395-183-8. (US edition (2009) published as Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-809-8) Hetherington, John (1967). Melba, a Biography. London: Faber and Faber. OCLC 7389273.

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Equivalent in 2008 values to £3,630,000 using the UK retail price index or £17,900,000 using average UK earnings. See Williamson, Samuel H. "Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1830 to Present", MeasuringWorth, 2008

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Drummond-Hay, Lily. "Famous Foodies: Nellie Melba", The Observer, 13 July 2003

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"Cloak worn by Nellie Melba as Elsa in Lohengrin, c.1891". omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au. Grainger Museum Online. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
"Nellie Melba as Elizabeth from Tannhäuser, 1894". omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au. Grainger Museum Online. Retrieved 28 August 2023.

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"Church History" Archived 23 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Scots' Church website, accessed 7 June 2010
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Cover – Nellie Melba, Time 18 April 1927
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"Melba House". Mackay Regional Council. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography incorrectly gives Melba's mother the maiden name of Dorn. "Dow" is confirmed in Blainey 2008, p. 5, and Hetherington 1967, p. 17 Blainey, Ann (2008). I am Melba. Melbourne: Black Inc. ISBN 978-1-86395-183-8. (US edition (2009) published as Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-809-8) Hetherington, John (1967). Melba, a Biography. London: Faber and Faber. OCLC 7389273.
Beecham 1959, pp. 170–171. Beecham, Thomas (1959). A Mingled Chime. London: Hutchinson. OCLC 470511334.