Quartet: How Four Women Changed The Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse)

Author: Leah Broad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Magnificent.' - Kate Mosse'Riveting.' - Antonia Fraser 'Wonderful.' - Claire Tomalin 'Splendid.' - Miranda Seymour Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Vic-torian 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 cele-brated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to...Read more