Maria Cerinthia

Fifteen year old aspiring composer and singer, and student at the German music school where famous composer Chevalier Seraphael teaches.

From the 1853 novel Charles Auchester by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard.

She's engaged to fellow student Florimond Anastase, but the Chevalier is himself in love with her. She composes a full symphony, but dies while conducting it, because the Victorians hated the idea of women composers.

See also

• Charles Auchester
• Lenhart Davy
• Clara Benette
• Starwood Burney
• Milans-André
• Rodomant

External Links

• mention in The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction
• Charles Auchester, vol. 1 (1891 ed.)
• Charles Auchester, vol. 2 (1891 ed.)