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Lola Montez was a unique and notorious woman. She was well known for her spider dance, which entertained the men on the Goldfields and as a result she became well known and was famous. Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was also known for her stage name Lola Montez.

She was born on the 17th of February 1821 in County Sligo, Ireland. Her family then moved to India and shortly after her father died of cholera, which is a disease. Her mother then remarried a year later. She was then sent back to the British Isles (a group of islands in Great Britain, Ireland and other smaller isles). Lola was educated in England and Scotland. When Marie was 16 she ran off with Lieutenant Thomas James and then they separated five years later.

Marie then

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