Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)