Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World Freya Mathews European colonialism set off unprecedented

European colonialism set off unprecedented exploitation of their resources

Sarah Washington

who trained as an artist and architect

twenty or seventy-two years (to the year 2100)

supplemented by 13 more expansive case studies

Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World Freya Mathews European colonialism set off unprecedentedThe lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. Ethel Smyth (b. 1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger than life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b. 1886): This talented violist and Pre Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for