John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ Bishop, Anna, was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, in London. Her first appearance in public was at a concert given by Bochsa, Slily 5, 1839. Grisi, Pauline, Viardot Garcia, Persiani, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache, all sang at this concert ; Thalberg and Dohler presided at the piano, and Bochsa at the harp ; still, in spite of this brilliant phalanx of artists, who threatened to eclipse altogether the talent of the new debutante, she obtained the most triumphant success. ”
