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- Birth nameEthel Mary Smyth
- Ethel Smyth was born on April 23, 1858 in Sidcup, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Suffragette (2015), Caught (1987) and A Skirt Through History (1994). She died on May 8, 1944 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK.
- She was influential in the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain in the early 20th century.
- She composed chamber and orchestral music, a Mass, and six operas. Her best-known composition is "March of the Women", an anthem for women's suffrage. Her opera "Der Wald" is the only opera composed by a woman to have been produced at the Metropolitan Opera (as of 2015).
- In 1934, Sir Thomas Beecham led a 75th-birthday concert of her music at Royal Albert Hall.
- During WWI, she worked as an X-ray nurse in a French military hospital in Vichy.
- In 1922, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the arts.
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