STREAKS OF LIFE
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944) was an English composer and strongly involved in the women's rights movement. Her 1911 choral suite "Songs of Sunrise" became the official anthem of the suffrage ...
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944) was an English composer and strongly involved in the women's rights movement. Her 1911 choral suite "Songs of Sunrise" became the official anthem of the suffrage movement, known as "The March of the Women." Smyth studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and was encouraged by Johannes Brahms and Antonn Dvork. 1922, inscribed 1st edition. Hardcover in blue cloth with a paper title label on the spine. Binding is spotted and worn and the spine is toned. A picture [from a newspaper clipping of Ethel Smyth] has been pasted to the front pastedown. The clipping has toned the front flyleaf, where a gift inscription has been written. Text is toned. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf, "Mary Leigh S----g) / from E. / Xmas 1926." CONTENTS Concerning This Book Recollections of the Empress Eugenie A Fresh Start and Two Portraits Two Glimpses of Queen Victoria "Mount Music" An Adventure in a Train The Quotation-Fiend A Winter of Storm The Opera Fiasco An Open Secret.
Product Info
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 1922
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
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