Quote of the day
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Ethel Smyth
Born: April 23, 1858
Died: May 8, 1944 (aged 86)
Bio: Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Smyth was born in Sidcup, Kent, which is now in the London Borough of Bexley, as the fourth of a family of eight children.
Known for:
- Impressions that remained (1877)
- The memoirs of Ethel Smyth
- Streaks of life (1921)
- As time went on .. (1936)
- Maurice Baring (1938)