Hilda Tablet is a fictitious "twelve-tone composeress" created by Henry Reed in an article in The Times on August 15, 1960. Serialism is a rubric applied to diverse systems of composing music in which various elements of a piece are ordered according to a pre-determined set or sets of musical pitches (sometimes called rows), and variations on them. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Henry Reed (February 22, 1914 - December 8, 1986) was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist. ... The masthead of The Times The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Possibly her best-known work is "The March of the Women" (1911), which became an anthem for the Women's Social and Political Union, to which she belonged.
She was one of the models for the fictional Dame HildaTablet in the 1950s radio plays of Henry Reed.
Long known to have been lesbian, she was involved in a romantic relationship with writer Virginia Woolf, leading to an abundant exchange of letters between the two women.
One of the most successful radio plays of 1954 was Henry Reed's The Private Life of HildaTablet, whose central figure was a twelve-tone woman composer, heavy-drinking and gravel-voiced, given to such expressions as "Look, old cock" delivered in patrician tones, and possessed of irresistible energy powered by monomania.
In general outline Hilda might have been more obviously resembled Dame Ethel Smyth - in her homosexuality, her bluff rural heartiness, and the endlessness of her projected biography.
Hilda had a father named Sir Eric [Liz's was Sir Edwin Lutyens] and a mother who was forcefully campaigning for proportional representation.
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