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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (April 23, 1858 - May 8, 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.

Early Life and Career

She was born in London and studied music in Leipzig with Frau von Herzogenberg as well as the Geistinger. Her works included symphonies, choral works and operas (most famously The Wreckers). However, possibly her best-known work was "The March of the Women" (1911), which became an anthem for the Women's Social and Political Union, to which she belonged.

In 1922, she received the DBE.

She was involved in a romantic relationship with writer Virginia Woolf, leading to an abundant exchange of letters between the two women. She was one of the models for the fictional Dame Hilda Tablet in the 1950s radio plays of Henry Reed.

She died at age 86 from natural causes in the UK.

There is also an article on the 20th century pop organist Ethel Smith

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