{{Short description|Australian singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Christie Fuller | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Louisa Christie Fuller | alias = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB --> | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date|1933|08|15}} | death_place = Strathfield, Australia | relatives = Florence Fuller (sister), Amy Fuller (sister), Sylvia Harper (daughter) | occupation = Singer | module = {{Infobox musical artist | associated_acts = Amy Fuller | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} or {{Official URL}} --> | origin = Australia | genre = | instrument = | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | label = }} }} '''Christie Fuller''' (died 15 August 1933) was an Australian singer of the late Victorian period. She performed professionally in Melbourne and internationally. She was sister to artist Florence Fuller and singer Amy Fuller.
Louisa Christie Fuller was the second daughter of John Hobson Fuller and Louisa Fuller (née Vines).<ref>Victoria BDM – Marriage Certificate Ref. 6246</ref><ref name=marr>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8431651 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=1 September 1890 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She was a contralto.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4756518 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=19 August 1933 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1886 she travelled to England to study, before returning to Melbourne the following year, where she subsequently performed professionally.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3760102 |title=Melbourne tea-table talk |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=13 December 1886 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7912866 |title=Miss Fuller's concert |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=19 September 1887 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Newspaper notices indicate that she performed publicly with her sister Amy on some occasions, including in Sydney in 1898<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14156771 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=29 August 1898 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and in Perth in 1910.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26258467 |title=Social notes |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=30 May 1910 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Fuller toured and performed in London and South Africa, as well as across Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17001189 |title=Late Mrs C. C. Lance|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=25 August 1933 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In Melbourne on 14 August 1890 she married Charles Carey Lance,<ref name=marr/> and after living in Euroa, Victoria and northern New South Wales,{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} the family settled in Sydney. They had two sons, Arnold, born 1892,<ref>Victoria BDM – Births Ref. 1342</ref> Francis, born 1893, and a daughter, Sylvia, born 1895, who - under her married name Sylvia Harper, or Mrs. R Harper - became a tennis player who competed internationally representing Australia.<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128645162 |title=Ladies' Tennis Team. |newspaper=The Sydney Stock and Station Journal |date=13 March 1925 |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Charles and Christie Lance were living in Strathfield, New South Wales when she died in August 1933.<ref name=obit/>
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