The Unsung Queer Female Composer Who Constantly Battled Gender Stereotypes

The extraordinary life of Dame Ethel Smyth

Kamna Kirti
The Collector
Published in
4 min readJan 21, 2021

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Dame Ethel Smyth, 1922
Source-Wikipedia

In 1934, the musical community of England assembled together in Queen’s Hall to celebrate the 75th birthday of Ethel Smyth. A prolific composer and suffragette who was granted the title of “damehood”(given to a woman equivalent to the rank of a knight); she was the…

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Kamna Kirti
The Collector

Art and life enthusiast. I engage with art at a deep level. I love to document my life experiences. Mama to Yoda 🐕 and Rumi 👨‍👧‍👶