John Pyke Hullah
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John Pyke Hullah was an English composer and teacher of music, whose promotion of vocal training is associated with the singing-class movement. He worked with Charles Dickens and knew Felix Mendelssoh
Photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1860s
c.1850 print of the interior of St Martin's Hall.
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
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Elizabeth Sara Sheppard was a 19th-century British novelist.
John Pyke Hullah
…His objections to it were partly grounded on the character of the music which was in common use among the early teachers of the system. The novelist Elizabeth Sara Sheppard portrayed Hullah as the character Lenhart Davy in her 1853 novel Charles Auchester. His widow, Frances Rosser Hullah, published a biography of her late…
Charles Auchester by Elizabeth Sheppard was published in Chicago in 1891