Josephine Giraldelli
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- Josephine Giraldelli died on 6 July 1830. · Wakefield.
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- sculptor
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Josephine Giraldelli was a sculptor.
Josephine Girardelli, a woman impervious to fire. Steel engraving, 1819. Iconographic Collections
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Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Reproduction of an engraving. Iconographic Collections
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Josephine Giraldelli died at Wakefield.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Bolton Library and Museum Services. Madame Giradelli, The Celebrated Fire-Proof Female.
- 2.Harry Houdini: Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. E. P. Dutton and Company, New York 1920.
- 3.Youngquist, Paul. Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite. Palgrave Macmillan US. 237–255. 2004. 978-0-312-29304-8.
- 4.Frost, Thomas. The Lives of the Conjurors. Tinsley. 200. 1876.
- 5.Rance, Caroline. Josephine Girardelli, the incombustible lady. The Quack Doctor. 2024-11-29.
- 6.Some account of Signora Girardelli, the Incombustible Lady now exhibiting at Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Magazine. 437–447. May 1818.
- 7.West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; New Reference Number: WDP3/4/4
- 8.Thomas Frost: The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs. Chatto & Windus, 1881, S. 235–236.
- 9.Doug MacGowan. Jo Girardelli: Queen of the Fire Eaters. historicmysteries.com. 2012-02-25.
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