Smyth (Ethel, 1858-1944). British Composer, Writer and Suffragist. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, 'Ethel Smyth', no place, no date, being the first two bars from her opera The Wreckers, written on a hand-drawn stave and identified in her hand as the 'Wreckers Overture', white card with remains of mount to verso, 85 x 115 mm, together with an autograph letter signed, 'Ethel', 5 November [1942?], to Commander Lyndsay Venn [husband of Smyth's late niece, Hilda Hollings], being a letter of condolence on the death of her niece, one page, oblong 8vo, together with: St. John (Christopher, nom de plume of Christabel Gertrude Marshall, 1871-1960). Author, Playwright and Campaigner for Women's Suffrage. 11 autograph letters signed, 'Christopher' and one 'Christopher St. John', mostly 1956-1959, all but one to Clare [Neilson], and relating to the preparation and eventual publication of St. John's biography of Ethel Smyth, mentioning Smyth and her works in many of the letters with further references to Noel Coward, Edward and Vita Sackville-West Sir Henry Wood Yehudi Menuhin and Ernest Newman, the eleventh letter to Commander Venn, dated 1943, responding to him with details of her thoughts about Mrs Venn and Dame Ethel Smyth, 2 pp., 8vo, plus: two autograph letters and three typed letters (all unsigned) by Clare Neilson relating to St. John's biography and her preparation of the typescript copy, a Novello Original Octavo paperback vocal score of Smyth's Mass in D, (signed and dated with initials by Kathleen Dale and with a few annotations, with an original 'Order of Service' for Smyth's funeral neatly attached to inside back cover, an original obituary notice for Smyth and two contemporary newspaper reviews of St. John's biography and a newspaper article about Smyth (Qty: a folder) An important series of letters to the dedicatee of St. John's book Ethel Smyth: A Biography. Nielson acted as typist and copyist for St. John when in her late 80s. Ethel Smyth studied in Leipzig and is famous for two works: Mass in D and an opera The Wreckers, the latter written in 1906. As a crusader for women's suffrage, she composed the battle-song of the Women's Social and Political Union; she was also imprisoned for three months.
Smyth (Ethel, 1858-1944). British Composer, Writer and Suffragist. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, 'Ethel Smyth', no place, no date, being the first two bars from her opera The Wreckers, written on a hand-drawn stave and identified in her hand as the 'Wreckers Overture', white card with remains of mount to verso, 85 x 115 mm, together with an autograph letter signed, 'Ethel', 5 November [1942?], to Commander Lyndsay Venn [husband of Smyth's late niece, Hilda Hollings], being a letter of condolence on the death of her niece, one page, oblong 8vo, together with: St. John (Christopher, nom de plume of Christabel Gertrude Marshall, 1871-1960). Author, Playwright and Campaigner for Women's Suffrage. 11 autograph letters signed, 'Christopher' and one 'Christopher St. John', mostly 1956-1959, all but one to Clare [Neilson], and relating to the preparation and eventual publication of St. John's biography of Ethel Smyth, mentioning Smyth and her works in many of the letters with further references to Noel Coward, Edward and Vita Sackville-West Sir Henry Wood Yehudi Menuhin and Ernest Newman, the eleventh letter to Commander Venn, dated 1943, responding to him with details of her thoughts about Mrs Venn and Dame Ethel Smyth, 2 pp., 8vo, plus: two autograph letters and three typed letters (all unsigned) by Clare Neilson relating to St. John's biography and her preparation of the typescript copy, a Novello Original Octavo paperback vocal score of Smyth's Mass in D, (signed and dated with initials by Kathleen Dale and with a few annotations, with an original 'Order of Service' for Smyth's funeral neatly attached to inside back cover, an original obituary notice for Smyth and two contemporary newspaper reviews of St. John's biography and a newspaper article about Smyth (Qty: a folder) An important series of letters to the dedicatee of St. John's book Ethel Smyth: A Biography. Nielson acted as typist and copyist for St. John when in her late 80s. Ethel Smyth studied in Leipzig and is famous for two works: Mass in D and an opera The Wreckers, the latter written in 1906. As a crusader for women's suffrage, she composed the battle-song of the Women's Social and Political Union; she was also imprisoned for three months.
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