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Ethel Smyth Wikipedia

Ethel Mary Smyth (April 23, 1858 - May 8, 1944) was an England|English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.

She was born in London and studied music in Leipzig with Frau von Herzegerberg. Her works included symphonies, choral works and operas (most famously The Wreckers). However, possibly her best-known work was "The March of the Women" (1911), which became an anthem for the Women's Social and Political Union, to which she belonged.

In 1922, she received the Order of the British Empire|DBE.

From early 1930 on she had a crush on Virginia Woolf, leading to an abundant exchange of letters between the two women. She was one of the models for 'Dame Hilda Tablet' in the 1950s radio plays of Henry Reed.

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There is also an article on the 20th century pop organist Ethel Smith

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