Katie Lawrence was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 music-hall singer, best known for Harry Dacre's

Harry Dacre

Harry Dacre was an English songwriter.Dacre had a hit in 1892 with the song "Daisy Bell" , made famous by Katie Lawrence, and then in 1899 with the song "I'll Be Your Sweetheart"....

 1890s hit "Daisy Bell

Daisy Bell

"Daisy Bell" is a popular song with the well-known chorus "Daisy, Daisy/Give me your answer do/I'm half crazy/all for the love of you" as well as the line "...a bicycle built for two".-History:"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892...

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Appearances in other media

The Impressionist painter

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

 Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert

Walter Richard Sickert , born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century....

 produced some hundred and sixty-six preparatory sketches of Lawrence performing at Gatti’s Hungerford Place of Varieties

Carlo Gatti

Carlo Gatti was a Swiss entrepreneur in the Victorian era. He came to England in 1847, where he established restaurants and an ice importing business. He is credited with first making ice cream available to the general public. He moved into music halls. He returned to Switzerland in 1871, leaving...

 in 1887. These formed the basis of a number of paintings he made of her in the 1880s and in 1903. Only one painting, that from 1903, survives; the rest are presumed destroyed. As recently as 2005, while this painting was undergoing routine restoration work, it was discovered that the Katie Lawrence scene was actually painted over an earlier composition. Using X-rays, art restorers discerned a study of the exterior of a church beneath the music hall scene.

In a draft of the fifteenth episode of James Joyce's

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

 Ulysses

Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...

 (1922) Joyce uses Lawrence's name for one of the prostitutes in the brothel.

Selected Songs

• Walter Tilbury, Katie My Own: Ballad (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1890).
• H. G. Banks and Felix McGlennon, In a Snug Little Home of Your Own (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1892).
• Harry Dacre, Daisy Bell: A Bicycle Made for Two (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1892).
• Arthur Pearl, Mary Jane, or, a Woeful Tale of Love (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1892).
• H. A. Duffy and J. M. Harrison, Molly, the Rose of Mayo (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1893).
• George Le Brunn and Richard Morton, My Old Man! (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1893).
• Felix McGlennon, He Never Cares to Wander from His Own Fireside, or, There's No Place Like "Home, Sweet Home" (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1893).
• Arthur Pearl, Come Back to the Old Folks at Home (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1893).
• Joseph Tabrar, She Tells You the Tale So Nicely (London: Hopwood & Crew, 1894).
• H. G. Banks and Felix McGlennon, Oh, Uncle John! (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1895).
• Tom Browne and Felix McGlennon, Daddy's Gone to London (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1895).
• Gus B. Beverley, My English Belle (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1896).
• Malcolm Arnold and Orlando Powell, Oh, I Wonder What They're Doing Now? (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1897).
• Tom Browne and Felix McGlennon, Everybody's Darling, or, Five Little Chicks at Home (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1897).
• C. G. Cotes and Felix McGlennon, Mary's Tambourine (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1897).
• George Le Brunn and Wal Pink, Stick to Me and the Kids! (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1897).
• Felix McGlennon, Humpy Umpy Ay (London: B. Feldman, 1898).
• Edgar Bateman and Felix McGlennon, The Ship That Belongs to a Lady (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1899).
• Tom Browne and Felix McGlennon, Say Nothing (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1899).
• C. G. Cotes and Bennett Scott, Two Little Brandies and Sodas (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1899).
• Will Fieldhouse, Little Nancy Newlove: The Girl with £1000 a Year (London: Elliott & Co., 1899).
• Felix McGlennon and George A. Stevens, I've Gone out for the Day, or, I Adore Another (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1899).
• Edgar Bateman and Felix McGlennon, Tommy, Jack and Joe (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1900).
• Tom Browne and Felix McGlennon, Thinking of the Lad Who Went Away (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1900).
• Bert Delmar and Sam Potter, The Waves Began to Roar (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1900).
• A. J. Mills and Albert Perry, She Looked a Perfect Lady (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1900).
• Nat Clifford, Oh! Jack, You Are a Handy Man (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1901).
• Harry Allen and J. P. Harrington, Mary Met the Milkman at the Corner (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1903).
• Edgar Bateman and Henry E. Pether, Why Shouldn't We Fight for Our Own? (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1904).
• Newton Butts and Herbert Rule, Why Can't I Be a Pal of Yours? (London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1906).

Sources

• Baron, Wendy Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (2006).
• Dredge, Paula and Richard Beresford, "Walter Sickert at Gatti's: New Technical Evidence" in The Burlington Magazine (April 2006), pp. 264–69.
• Herring, Phillip. Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for "Ulysses": Selections from the Buffalo Collection, University of Virginia (1977).

External links

• Sickert's painting of Lawrence in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Gatti's music halls