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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944) was born in London, England. She overcame the limits of her middle-class English background by openly rebelling against the constraints of a Victorian society. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
John Singer Sargent: Ethel Smyth, 1901 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth [1] (April 23, 1858 - May 8, 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the womens suffrage movement. ...
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Smyth was taught piano and music theory as these were considered lady-like accomplishments. However, she became so focused on her studies that her family thought her behavior unsuitable and stopped her lessons. Smyth was enraged and went on strike, confining herself to her room and refusing to attend meals, church, or social functions until her father agreed to send her to Leipzig to study the composition of music which he eventually did. [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...
Smyth went to Leipzig. She had an exceptionally ebullient and demanding personality which found artistic release in playing idiosycratic versions Brahms compositions. In 1893 she became famous in England for her performance of Brahms' Mass in D for chorus and orchestra. Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of classical music. ...
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She had passionate relationships with persons of both sexes. She was caricatured in E. F. Benson's Dodo novels and ridiculed by Virginia Woolf. Smyth met Emmeline Pankhurst, the founder of the British women's suffrage movement, in 1910. Pankhurst was head of the militant and extremely well organized Women's Social and Political Union. Mesmerized by Mrs. Pankhurst's public speeches, Smyth pledged to give up music for two years and devote herself to the cause of women's sufferage. A caricature of director Quentin Tarantino, using pieces of overlapped construction paper and color pencil, by Luigi Novi. ...
Edward Frederick Benson (July 24, 1867 - February 29, 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. ...
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The Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU) was the leading organisation campaigning for womens suffrage in the United Kingdom. ...
Two of her compositions, Laggard Dawn and The March of the Women. were written in 1911. They premiered. with a chorus of suffragettes, at a fundraising rally at the Albert Hall in London in March of 1911. The latter tune became the battle cry for the suffrage movement. Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom and United States, particularly in the years prior to World War I. The name was the Womens Social and Political Union (founded in 1903). ...
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The most famous perfomance of this work was in Holloway prison in London in 1912. More than 100 suffragettes, including Mrs. Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth, were arrested for smashing windows, tried, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. One day, during the prisoners' outdoor exercise period, Smyth stood in a window looking over the prison yard, and waved her toothbrush to conduct the prisoners in singing the suffrage battle anthem. HM Prison Holloway is a womens prison in the London Borough of Islington, London, United Kingdom. ...
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