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    Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (/smaɪθ/; 22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions...
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  • This is a list of musical compositions by Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944). Works are listed within each genre by year of composition, or if the year of composition...
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    Despard, Mary Richardson, Dora Montefiore, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and Ethel Smyth. In 1959, Joanna Kelley became Governor of Holloway. Kelley ensured that...
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    women in society when she wrote A Room of One's Own. in a 1930 letter to Ethel Smyth: As an experience, madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be...
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    The Wreckers (opera) (category Operas by Ethel Smyth)
    naufrageurs is a French-language opera in three acts composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by...
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    recording artist Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer and women's-suffrage leader Ethel Teare (1894–1959), American silent-film actress Ethel Grey Terry...
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    building has a balcony running around three sides of the interior. Dame Ethel Smyth once preached from the pulpit. In 1904, the Brompton Hospital Sanatorium...
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  • edge. Each plate, except the ones corresponding to Sojourner Truth and Ethel Smyth, depicts a brightly colored, elaborately styled vulvar form. The settings...
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    The March of the Women (category Compositions by Ethel Smyth)
    "The March of the Women" is a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. It became the official anthem of the Women's Social and...
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  • The Mass in D by Ethel Smyth is a setting of the mass ordinary for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra, first performed in 1893. Smyth composed the Mass...
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    Der Wald (category Operas by Ethel Smyth)
    opera in one act by Ethel Smyth to a German libretto by Henry Brewster and Smyth, written between 1899 and 1901. It was Smyth's second opera and it was...
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    public, but did arrange children's folk songs. Her lover, the composer Ethel Smyth, devoted chapter XX of Impressions That Remained: Memoirs to her. 24...
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    Fête Galante is an opera in one act composed by Ethel Smyth to an English-language libretto by Smyth and Edward Shanks based on Maurice Baring's 1909 short...
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    The Boatswain's Mate (category Operas by Ethel Smyth)
    suffragette Ethel Smyth in 1913–14 set to her own libretto, which was based on a story of the same name by W. W. Jacobs. It was Smyth's fourth opera...
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    and political activist – lived in The Ridge, Woking from 1901 to 1903 Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), composer and suffragette – lived at Coign, Hook Heath Road...
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  • playwright. Fanny Mendelssohn 1805 Germany Ethel Smyth A German pianist and composer. Faustina Bordoni 1697 Italy Ethel Smyth An Italian mezzo-soprano. Fede Galizia...
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    title John Smyth (disambiguation) Joseph Smyth (disambiguation) Peter Smyth (disambiguation) Richard Smyth (disambiguation) William Smyth (disambiguation)...
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    the anthem was changed to "The March of the Women", newly composed by Ethel Smyth with words by Cicely Hamilton. On 13 October 1908, Emmeline Pankhurst...
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    purported biological father) was Edward VII. Composer and conductor Ethel Smyth fell deeply in love with her during their affair. In the early 1920s...
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    Fantasio is an opera in two acts composed by Ethel Smyth. The German-language libretto was written by Smyth and Henry Bennet Brewster. Described in the...
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    include Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Ethel Smyth, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Jean Sibelius (see Two Serenades (Sibelius))...
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    Entente Cordiale (opera) (category Operas by Ethel Smyth)
    Entente Cordiale is a comic opera in one act by Ethel Smyth with an English-language libretto by Smyth, who describes the work as "a post-war comedy in...
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    polymath; Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847); Clara Schumann (1819–1896); Ethel Smyth (1858–1944); Amy Beach (1867–1944); Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979); Germaine...
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  • that are still relevant. She dedicated the latter book to composer Dame Ethel Smyth and actress and writer Cicely Hamiltion, both strong suffragists who...
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  • still making his way around the lower leagues of English football Dame Ethel Smyth, composer and suffragette, lived as a child at Frimhurst, Frimley Green...
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  • Ruggiero, is widely considered the oldest opera by a woman composer. Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) Perhaps most famous for her work for the suffragettes; however...
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    intense on both sides – so it was rumoured by for example English composer Ethel Smyth – ultimately came to nothing. In February and March 1888 Mahler sketched...
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    [citation needed] The composer Ethel Smyth set two of Holdsworth's poems in the song cycle Three Songs (1913). Smyth dedicated "Possession" to Emmeline...
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    sonatas (including the Cello Sonata in C Minor written in 1880) by Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Claude Debussy's...
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    featured a scathing description of composer and militant suffragette Ethel Smyth, with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second...
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