Castles

Amy Eliza Castles (* Melbourne, July 1880; † Melbourne, Nov. 1951), soprano. At an early age she moved to Bendigo. She was educated at the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy where she was taught by a lay singing teacher, E. Allan Bindley. With the help of the Bendigo Independent she was discovered in 1898, and early in 1899 under the wing of Mrs Ida Doubleday introduced to Melbourne audiences in a series of large concerts conducted with vice-regal patronage. She was...