The Unsung Queer Female Composer Who Constantly Battled Gender Stereotypes
The extraordinary life of Dame Ethel Smyth
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4 min readJan 21, 2021
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…