Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Ethel Smyth
![Ethel Smyth](/img/nopic_profile.png)
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)