Juliana Szczepanowska (nee Scott) later Ferranti
Juliana Scott born 1825 in Leicester-shire: Died 1906 in London.
Daughter of William Scott and Sally Myers
Juliana was not a painter - she was a musician
She played the piano and sang to concert standard and indeed earned her living this way supplemented by teaching piano.
She married twice
1. Count Stanislaus Szczepenowski
2. Cesar Z de Ferranti
Her first husband was Polish and deemed to be one of the leading guitar players in Europe of his time. They would tour together giving concerts all over Britain and Europe. She had several children by him
Then one difficult autumn, when one child had recently died and the most recent was under a year old - he disappeared leaving her alone in Europe, far from home, with all her young children. He never returned to her.
She discovered many years later that he had been a Polish spy using her and his guitar playing career as a means to travel easily and spy without suspition.
A few years later she married Cesar Z de Ferranti - one of the early photographers and son of another leading European guitar player - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
This marriage worked well until she heard that her first husband was not dead, as assumed.
She was put in the impossible position of not knowing which man she was married to in the eyes of God.
Meanwhile her second husband Cesar found himself a mistress. Because of this, his flourishing photographic business went bankrupt. Victorian society could not cope with a man who openly lived with his mistress.
Juliana was again left on her own and penniless and striving to earn money to look after her children by both husbands.
As well as her musical skills she had literary skills. She had two stories accepted for Dickens Journals.
Charles Dickens produced a weekly journal / magazine called Household Words with stories, some by him and some by others, but edited by him
Juliana's stories can be read at the links below
Her first H.W. contribution was "The Serf of Pobereze", I, 342–50. July 6, 1850
It is the story of a Polish peasant girl who became a prima donna. It was reprinted in the International Magazine and included in Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words, pub. Auburn, N.Y., 1854.
The second item was "Barbara's Nuptials", IX, 488–92. July 8, 1854. It is an account of the betrothal and wedding, in 1759, of the daughter of an ancient Polish family, Barbara Krasinska, recorded from the diary of Barbara's sister. In his Life of Adventure (I, 6), Otto von Corvin, a descendant of the Corvin-Krasinskis, mentioned the publication in H.W. of the "very interesting extract" from the sister's diary.
Daughter of William Scott and Sally Myers
Juliana was not a painter - she was a musician
She played the piano and sang to concert standard and indeed earned her living this way supplemented by teaching piano.
She married twice
1. Count Stanislaus Szczepenowski
2. Cesar Z de Ferranti
Her first husband was Polish and deemed to be one of the leading guitar players in Europe of his time. They would tour together giving concerts all over Britain and Europe. She had several children by him
Then one difficult autumn, when one child had recently died and the most recent was under a year old - he disappeared leaving her alone in Europe, far from home, with all her young children. He never returned to her.
She discovered many years later that he had been a Polish spy using her and his guitar playing career as a means to travel easily and spy without suspition.
A few years later she married Cesar Z de Ferranti - one of the early photographers and son of another leading European guitar player - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
This marriage worked well until she heard that her first husband was not dead, as assumed.
She was put in the impossible position of not knowing which man she was married to in the eyes of God.
Meanwhile her second husband Cesar found himself a mistress. Because of this, his flourishing photographic business went bankrupt. Victorian society could not cope with a man who openly lived with his mistress.
Juliana was again left on her own and penniless and striving to earn money to look after her children by both husbands.
As well as her musical skills she had literary skills. She had two stories accepted for Dickens Journals.
Charles Dickens produced a weekly journal / magazine called Household Words with stories, some by him and some by others, but edited by him
Juliana's stories can be read at the links below
Her first H.W. contribution was "The Serf of Pobereze", I, 342–50. July 6, 1850
It is the story of a Polish peasant girl who became a prima donna. It was reprinted in the International Magazine and included in Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words, pub. Auburn, N.Y., 1854.
The second item was "Barbara's Nuptials", IX, 488–92. July 8, 1854. It is an account of the betrothal and wedding, in 1759, of the daughter of an ancient Polish family, Barbara Krasinska, recorded from the diary of Barbara's sister. In his Life of Adventure (I, 6), Otto von Corvin, a descendant of the Corvin-Krasinskis, mentioned the publication in H.W. of the "very interesting extract" from the sister's diary.