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and actress. It was said that her father could play any instrument he had ever seen. Her mother Eliza was a pianist, and the whole Moody family were musical.
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in June 1883. In April 1884 she sang with other students at a concert in
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in the title role, with her husband as Gremin. In 1893 she and
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