Lola Montez

One day in Dinapore, Ensign Edward Gilbert’s place at the mess table was empty. The doctor had only one word: “Cholera”—and little Lola was not yet seven when her father died.

Edmund B. D’Auvergne’s biography begins in the unsettled years after Napoleon, when a child born in Limerick could grow up amid the great changes of the nineteenth century. Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert—Lola to everyone who knew her—crosses the sea to India with her soldier father and beautiful young mother, into a world of fever, flooded boats and unfamiliar splendour. When her father’s death leaves her mother and her alone, their life must take a new course. What will the spirited child make of a world that has already carried her so far from home?

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