Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World Freya Mathews Sarah Washington

Sarah Washington

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Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World Freya Mathews Sarah WashingtonThe lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. Ethel Smyth (b. 1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger than life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b. 1886): This talented violist and Pre Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for