Gloria Hollister

Gloria Hollister Anable (June 11, 1900 – February 19, 1988) was an American explorer, scientist, and conservationist. She served as research associate in the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society), specializing in fish osteology, and she made record-setting dives in a submersible called the Bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda in the 1930s. During the 1950s, she helped to found the committee that preserved that Mianus River Gorge, which subsequently became the Nature Conservancy’s first land project.

Ida Emily Ghent (1899-1985) One of the first women to practise optometry in Australia

There were very few women optometrists until about 1970. Ida Ghent was one of the first. She was born in Bristol England in 1899 and migrated to Australia about 1915. She worked as a bookkeeper or accountant before embarking on the course for Fellowship of the Victorian Optical Association, the precursor to the Optometrists Association Victoria. She graduated with distinction in 1921. She was awarded the Medal of the VOA for obtaining the highest marks in the course at the Association’s AGM on July 22 1922. She established her own practice in Shepparton, Victoria where she remained until about 1940. Registration of optometrists was introduced in Victoria in 1935 and she was one of six women among the 286 optometrists that were registered in 1936. The Kett Museum has her Certificate of Membership of the VOA of August 21 1922 and her Certificate of Associate Membership of the Australasian Optometrical Association dated 1927. The Museum also holds copies of her lecture notes, a photograph of her practice in Shepparton and a menu of the VOA Congress dinner signed by her and other attendees.

REF: https://museum.aco.org.au/the-people

She is the only woman on the list of “Australian Optometrists Who Made History”. Another person on the list is Ian Bailey. I didn’t know him, but I do know Jan Lovie, who worked with him to develop the Bailey-Lovie chart. One of their marketing ploys to get attention to their chart was “interesting”. It’s now an internationally accepted way of setting up vision charts. For many reasons. It was the first time anyone sat down and worked out having the same number of letters on each line, actually thinking about the spacing between letters and the spacing between lines, and selecting a set of letters that were square and generally weren’t misread as other letters.

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Gloria Hollister

Gloria Hollister Anable (June 11, 1900 – February 19, 1988) was an American explorer, scientist, and conservationist. She served as research associate in the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society), specializing in fish osteology, and she made record-setting dives in a submersible called the Bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda in the 1930s. During the 1950s, she helped to found the committee that preserved that Mianus River Gorge, which subsequently became the Nature Conservancy’s first land project.

Definitely remarkable.

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Ah, I see you’ve met the US freedom of information act.

There were a couple of females who really did change the outcome of the battle of Britain.
Hazel Hill
A 13 year old girl

Beatrice Schilling

Harriet Chalmers Adams

Harriet Chalmers Adams (October 22, 1875 – July 17, 1937) was an American explorer, writer and photographer. She traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in National Geographic magazine. She lectured frequently on her travels and illustrated her talks with color slides and movies.

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Harriet Chalmers Adams

Harriet Chalmers Adams (October 22, 1875 – July 17, 1937) was an American explorer, writer and photographer. She traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in National Geographic magazine. She lectured frequently on her travels and illustrated her talks with color slides and movies.

Quite the woman.

I’ll not be the one to take the pith out of her helmet.

Isabella Bird

Isabella Lucy Bird stood just 4’11” tall, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in today’s Kashmir. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Bird left Britain again in 1872, going initially to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). While there she climbed Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. She then moved on to Colorado, where she had heard the air was excellent for the infirm. Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine The Leisure Hour, comprised Bird’s fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.

Bird’s time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, “Rocky Mountain Jim”, a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. “A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry”, Bird declared in a section excised from her letters before their publication. Nugent also seemed captivated by the independent-minded Bird, but she ultimately left the Rockies and her “dear desperado”. Nugent was shot dead less than a year later.

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer

Ida Laura Pfeiffer (14 October 1797, Vienna – 27 October 1858, Vienna), née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. She journeyed an estimated 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) by land and 240,000 kilometres (150,000 mi) by sea through Southeast Asia, the Americas, Middle East, and Africa, including two trips around the world from 1846 to 1855. She was a member of geographical societies of both Berlin and Paris, but was denied membership by the Royal Geographical Society in London as it forbade the election of women before 1913.

First trip round the world (1846–1848)
In 1846, Pfeiffer started on a journey round the world, visiting Brazil, Chile and other countries of South America, Tahiti, China, India, Persia, Asia Minor and Greece, returning to Vienna in 1848. The results were published in Eine Frauenfahrt um die Welt (“A Woman’s Journey round the World,” 3 vols., Vienna, 1850).

Second trip round the world (1851–1855)
To fund her next expedition, Pfeiffer sold 300 guilders worth of specimens to the Royal Museum of Vienna. Carl von Schreibers, director of the Viennese natural history collections, and Austrian archaeologist Josef von Arneth applied for governmental funding on her behalf on the grounds that she had proven herself skilled at procuring rare specimens from far corners of the world. As a result, Pfeiffer was awarded 1,500 guilders.

During her travels, Pfeiffer collected plants, insects, mollusks, marine life, and mineral specimens. Many were sold to Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the British Museum. The Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna purchased 721 specimens from Pfeiffer’s collection in Madagascar and Mauritius, including nine species of mammals, fourteen species of birds, twenty-three species of reptiles, three species of crustaceans, fifteen species of mollusks, ten species of spiders, and 185 species of insects.

Alfred Wallace frequently mentioned Pfeiffer in his letters to his sister, to his colleague Henry Walter Bates, and to Samuel Stevens, a natural history agent in London who supported Pfeiffer’s collecting expedition to the Americas. In fact, Wallace would visit many of the same places that Pfeiffer did before him, including the Malay Archipelago.

Charles Darwin cited Pfeiffer in his Descent of Man (1871), remarking that “in Java, a yellow, not a white girl, is considered, according to Madame Pfeiffer, a beauty.”

Lost Edinburgh group
Christine Vincenti · 6 m ·
Bessie Watson was born in 1900 in Edinburgh’s Old Town. You can read her story and view more photographs on this link https://www.ourtownstories.co.uk/…/1091-bessie-watson…
Bessie Watson was the girl piper who joined the suffragette movement at its peak and attracted the attention of some of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.
Bessie Watson was born on 13 July 1900 to parents Agnes Newton and Horatio Watson, who raised her in their small house on the Vennel in the heart of Edinburgh. As a young girl, Bessie was described as small, frail and “bandy-legged”, but of good nature.
When she turned seven, Bessie’s aunt Margaret contracted tuberculosis – an incident which would change the youngster’s life forever. Margaret lived with the family, and Bessie’s parents, worried that she might fall ill to the contagious disease, encouraged her to take up the bagpipes in a bid to strengthen her weak lungs.
Her first set of pipes was specially-produced according to her diminutive stature as she was too small to properly inflate an adult-sized bag. The half-sized set of pipes was purchased from Robertson’s pipe makers at 58 Grove Street. “I hurried home from school and carried it, in a brown paper parcel down to my (music) teacher”, Bessie recalled. As one of the very few female bagpipe players in the world at that time – not to mention one of the youngest – Bessie took to her new instrument with great enthusiasm.
Within just a couple of years she would be showcasing her talents up and down the country to thousands of spectators.
At the height of the UK suffragette movement, Bessie was playing at major demonstrations and parades for the Women’s Social and Political Union, including the famous procession through Edinburgh on 9 October 1909. On that day a large crowd watched as hundreds of banner-laden ladies, wearing the suffragist colours of purple, white and green, marched down Princes Street before congregating at Waverley Market for a rally led by Emmeline Pankhurst.
During the parade Bessie, with her distinctive ‘Votes For Women’ sash, played at intervals as she rode on a float beside a lady dressed as Isabella MacDuff, the Countess of Buchan – a 14th century heroine from Scotland’s Wars of Independence. How this all came about was explained by Bessie herself a number of years later: “We were walking down Queensferry Street and we stopped at a shop window. It was the window of the WSPU. “When we came out my mother and I were members of the WSPU and I was booked to play the pipes in the Historical Pageant in October. “They asked me because there I was, a girl doing something which they always associated with men.” Bessie’s parents had always been keen for their talented daughter to show off her abilities and make her mark on history. They were also ardent supporters of the women’s suffrage movement, no surprise perhaps when you consider that the Salvation Army’s women’s shelter was on their doorstep.
On 17 June 1911 Bessie was invited to lead the Scottish contingent with other female pipers at the Great Pageant in London: “(It was) just five days before the Coronation of King George V. The procession was five miles long”, Bessie said of the event. And, just a few weeks later, for George’s state visit to Edinburgh, Bessie, leading the 2nd Edinburgh Company of the Girl Guides, received recognition from the King himself as she raised her salute.
Having secured regal acknowledgement in time for her 11th birthday, Scotland’s youngest female piper continued in her quest to support women’s rights, accompanying inmates bound for Holloway Prison to Waverley Station and playing the pipes as their trains departed. Bessie’s rousing skirl also made a regular appearance outside the walls of Edinburgh’s infamous Calton Jail in an attempt to raise the spirits of the suffragettes locked up inside. And during the Great War, while the suffragette movement was put on hold, a teenage Bessie, dressed in full Highland garb, joined ranks with the Scots Guards to aid the call to arms for volunteers.
For the part she played in Edinburgh’s historic women’s rights pageant of 1909, young Bessie received a special gift from one very prominent individual: “A few weeks later Christabel Pankhurst (daughter of Emmeline) came to Edinburgh to address a meeting at the King’s Theatre and I was invited to attend. “During the evening I was presented with a brooch representing Queen Boadicea (Boudica) in her chariot, as a token of gratitude for my help in the pageant.” The huge significance of this symbolic gesture was not lost on the 9-year-old girl piper.
In 1979, Bessie passed the brooch on to the newly-elected Margaret Thatcher. As a young woman, Bessie had fought for the right to vote, a fight which took until 1928 to be resolved. Now, here she was, more than fifty years later, passing on this poignant token bearing the image of a heroic Iron Age queen to Great Britain’s Iron Lady and first ever female prime minister.
In 1926 Bessie moved with her parents to a new house on Clark Road, Trinity where she would remain for the rest of her days. Following her marriage to electrical contractor John Somerville at the end of the Second World War, Bessie devoted her life to teaching music and foreign languages. Former neighbours recall that, even into her late eighties, Bessie continued to play her bagpipes at 11am every morning. It was something she had always done.
Bessie died in 1992, two and a half weeks short of her 92nd birthday. Over the course of her long life she had experienced almost a century of social progression and upheaval, and had played her part in changing the world for the better.
Bessie’s exploits are as relevant today as they were when King George V appeared on our coins – yet her name has been mostly forgotten. If there’s anyone who deserves a memorial in Edinburgh, it’s Bessie Watson.
Text: David McLean
Photograph: Copyright to Capital Collections ‘Our Town Stories’ http://www.ourtownstories.co.uk

sarahs mum said:

Lost Edinburgh group
Christine Vincenti · 6 m ·
Bessie Watson was born in 1900 in Edinburgh’s Old Town. You can read her story and view more photographs on this link https://www.ourtownstories.co.uk/…/1091-bessie-watson…
Bessie Watson was the girl piper who joined the suffragette movement at its peak and attracted the attention of some of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.
Bessie Watson was born on 13 July 1900 to parents Agnes Newton and Horatio Watson, who raised her in their small house on the Vennel in the heart of Edinburgh. As a young girl, Bessie was described as small, frail and “bandy-legged”, but of good nature.
When she turned seven, Bessie’s aunt Margaret contracted tuberculosis – an incident which would change the youngster’s life forever. Margaret lived with the family, and Bessie’s parents, worried that she might fall ill to the contagious disease, encouraged her to take up the bagpipes in a bid to strengthen her weak lungs.
Her first set of pipes was specially-produced according to her diminutive stature as she was too small to properly inflate an adult-sized bag. The half-sized set of pipes was purchased from Robertson’s pipe makers at 58 Grove Street. “I hurried home from school and carried it, in a brown paper parcel down to my (music) teacher”, Bessie recalled. As one of the very few female bagpipe players in the world at that time – not to mention one of the youngest – Bessie took to her new instrument with great enthusiasm.
Within just a couple of years she would be showcasing her talents up and down the country to thousands of spectators.
At the height of the UK suffragette movement, Bessie was playing at major demonstrations and parades for the Women’s Social and Political Union, including the famous procession through Edinburgh on 9 October 1909. On that day a large crowd watched as hundreds of banner-laden ladies, wearing the suffragist colours of purple, white and green, marched down Princes Street before congregating at Waverley Market for a rally led by Emmeline Pankhurst.
During the parade Bessie, with her distinctive ‘Votes For Women’ sash, played at intervals as she rode on a float beside a lady dressed as Isabella MacDuff, the Countess of Buchan – a 14th century heroine from Scotland’s Wars of Independence. How this all came about was explained by Bessie herself a number of years later: “We were walking down Queensferry Street and we stopped at a shop window. It was the window of the WSPU. “When we came out my mother and I were members of the WSPU and I was booked to play the pipes in the Historical Pageant in October. “They asked me because there I was, a girl doing something which they always associated with men.” Bessie’s parents had always been keen for their talented daughter to show off her abilities and make her mark on history. They were also ardent supporters of the women’s suffrage movement, no surprise perhaps when you consider that the Salvation Army’s women’s shelter was on their doorstep.
On 17 June 1911 Bessie was invited to lead the Scottish contingent with other female pipers at the Great Pageant in London: “(It was) just five days before the Coronation of King George V. The procession was five miles long”, Bessie said of the event. And, just a few weeks later, for George’s state visit to Edinburgh, Bessie, leading the 2nd Edinburgh Company of the Girl Guides, received recognition from the King himself as she raised her salute.
Having secured regal acknowledgement in time for her 11th birthday, Scotland’s youngest female piper continued in her quest to support women’s rights, accompanying inmates bound for Holloway Prison to Waverley Station and playing the pipes as their trains departed. Bessie’s rousing skirl also made a regular appearance outside the walls of Edinburgh’s infamous Calton Jail in an attempt to raise the spirits of the suffragettes locked up inside. And during the Great War, while the suffragette movement was put on hold, a teenage Bessie, dressed in full Highland garb, joined ranks with the Scots Guards to aid the call to arms for volunteers.
For the part she played in Edinburgh’s historic women’s rights pageant of 1909, young Bessie received a special gift from one very prominent individual: “A few weeks later Christabel Pankhurst (daughter of Emmeline) came to Edinburgh to address a meeting at the King’s Theatre and I was invited to attend. “During the evening I was presented with a brooch representing Queen Boadicea (Boudica) in her chariot, as a token of gratitude for my help in the pageant.” The huge significance of this symbolic gesture was not lost on the 9-year-old girl piper.
In 1979, Bessie passed the brooch on to the newly-elected Margaret Thatcher. As a young woman, Bessie had fought for the right to vote, a fight which took until 1928 to be resolved. Now, here she was, more than fifty years later, passing on this poignant token bearing the image of a heroic Iron Age queen to Great Britain’s Iron Lady and first ever female prime minister.
In 1926 Bessie moved with her parents to a new house on Clark Road, Trinity where she would remain for the rest of her days. Following her marriage to electrical contractor John Somerville at the end of the Second World War, Bessie devoted her life to teaching music and foreign languages. Former neighbours recall that, even into her late eighties, Bessie continued to play her bagpipes at 11am every morning. It was something she had always done.
Bessie died in 1992, two and a half weeks short of her 92nd birthday. Over the course of her long life she had experienced almost a century of social progression and upheaval, and had played her part in changing the world for the better.
Bessie’s exploits are as relevant today as they were when King George V appeared on our coins – yet her name has been mostly forgotten. If there’s anyone who deserves a memorial in Edinburgh, it’s Bessie Watson.
Text: David McLean
Photograph: Copyright to Capital Collections ‘Our Town Stories’ http://www.ourtownstories.co.uk

That’s one of the best things I’ve ever read. The expression on her face in that picture is priceless.

Gillian Brown

Gillian Brown has a quietly commanding presence as she stands in the foyer of the Queensland Herbarium, nestled among foliage on the grounds of Mount Coot-tha’s Botanic Gardens.

After seven years as the organisation’s principal botanist, collections manager and science leader, Dr Brown became its ninth director last December — and the first woman appointed to the position since the herbarium opened in 1859.

dv said:

How did people live with this stuff in centuries past?

Kothos said:

dv said:

How did people live with this stuff in centuries past?

They just died

dv said:

Kothos said:

dv said:

How did people live with this stuff in centuries past?

They just died

Lame! I don’t respect people who died.

dv said:

Kothos said:

dv said:

How did people live with this stuff in centuries past?

They just died

withdraw to chambers and take laudunum.

Raymonde de Laroche

Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 – 18 July 1919) was a French pilot, thought to be the first woman to pilot a plane. She became the world’s first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910.

She received the 36th aeroplane pilot’s licence issued by the Aeroclub de France, the world’s first organization to issue pilot licences. At the time, pilot licences were only required for pilots operating aircraft for commercial purposes.

On 18 July 1919, de Laroche, who was a talented engineer, went to the airfield at Le Crotoy as part of her plan to become the first female test pilot. She co-piloted an experimental aircraft (whether she flew this is not known); on its landing approach the aeroplane went into a dive and crashed, killing both de Laroche and the co-pilot.: 21 

There have been many very fine women composers. Tonight I’ve been listening to Ethel Smyth’s evocative string quintet in E major, so she scores an entry this evening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. Nevertheless, she was granted a damehood, the first female composer to be so honoured.

….Smyth’s extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the “most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten.” In 2022 it was performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the first professional production in its original French libretto. It was also performed at the BBC Proms, where its prelude or overture was included 27 times between 1913 and 1947.

Another of her operas, Der Wald, mounted in 1903, was, for more than a century, the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin in December 2016).

On 28 May 1928, the nascent BBC broadcast two concerts of Smyth’s music, marking her “musical jubilee”, The first comprised chamber music, the second, conducted by Smyth herself, choral works. Otherwise, recognition in England came somewhat late for Ethel Smyth, wrote the conductor Leon Botstein at the time he conducted the American Symphony Orchestra’s US premiere of The Wreckers in New York on 30 September 2007:

On her seventy-fifth birthday in 1934, under Beecham’s direction, her work was celebrated in a festival, the final event of which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen. Heartbreakingly, at this moment of long-overdue recognition, the composer was already completely deaf and could hear neither her own music nor the adulation of the crowds.

Her final major work was the hour long vocal symphony The Prison, setting a text by Henry Bennett Brewster. It was first performed in 1931. The first recording was issued by Chandos in 2020. However, she found a new interest in literature and, between 1919 and 1940, she published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books.

….Involvement with the suffrage movement

Ethel Smyth March of the Women
In 1910, Smyth joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), which agitated for women’s suffrage, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. She accompanied the charismatic leader of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, on many occasions, and her “The March of the Women” (1911) became the anthem of the suffragette movement.

Smyth is credited with teaching Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw stones in 1912. After further practice aiming stones at trees near the home of fellow suffragette, Zelie Emerson, Pankhurst called on WPSU members to break a window of the house of any politician who opposed votes for women. Smyth was one of the 109 members who responded to Pankhurst’s call, asking to be sent to attack the home of Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt, who had remarked that if his wife’s beauty and wisdom was present in all women, they would have already won the vote.

Smyth stood half the bail for Helen Craggs, who had been caught on the way to carry out the arson of the leading politician’s home. During the stone throwing, Pankhurst and 100 other women were arrested, and Smyth served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham, her proponent-friend, went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out of a window conducting the song with a toothbrush.

Bubblecar said:

There have been many very fine women composers. Tonight I’ve been listening to Ethel Smyth’s evocative string quintet in E major, so she scores an entry this evening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. Nevertheless, she was granted a damehood, the first female composer to be so honoured.

….Smyth’s extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the “most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten.” In 2022 it was performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the first professional production in its original French libretto. It was also performed at the BBC Proms, where its prelude or overture was included 27 times between 1913 and 1947.

Another of her operas, Der Wald, mounted in 1903, was, for more than a century, the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin in December 2016).

On 28 May 1928, the nascent BBC broadcast two concerts of Smyth’s music, marking her “musical jubilee”, The first comprised chamber music, the second, conducted by Smyth herself, choral works. Otherwise, recognition in England came somewhat late for Ethel Smyth, wrote the conductor Leon Botstein at the time he conducted the American Symphony Orchestra’s US premiere of The Wreckers in New York on 30 September 2007:

On her seventy-fifth birthday in 1934, under Beecham’s direction, her work was celebrated in a festival, the final event of which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen. Heartbreakingly, at this moment of long-overdue recognition, the composer was already completely deaf and could hear neither her own music nor the adulation of the crowds.

Her final major work was the hour long vocal symphony The Prison, setting a text by Henry Bennett Brewster. It was first performed in 1931. The first recording was issued by Chandos in 2020. However, she found a new interest in literature and, between 1919 and 1940, she published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books.

….Involvement with the suffrage movement

Ethel Smyth March of the Women
In 1910, Smyth joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), which agitated for women’s suffrage, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. She accompanied the charismatic leader of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, on many occasions, and her “The March of the Women” (1911) became the anthem of the suffragette movement.

Smyth is credited with teaching Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw stones in 1912. After further practice aiming stones at trees near the home of fellow suffragette, Zelie Emerson, Pankhurst called on WPSU members to break a window of the house of any politician who opposed votes for women. Smyth was one of the 109 members who responded to Pankhurst’s call, asking to be sent to attack the home of Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt, who had remarked that if his wife’s beauty and wisdom was present in all women, they would have already won the vote.

Smyth stood half the bail for Helen Craggs, who had been caught on the way to carry out the arson of the leading politician’s home. During the stone throwing, Pankhurst and 100 other women were arrested, and Smyth served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham, her proponent-friend, went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out of a window conducting the song with a toothbrush.

March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMjOAxktS0

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

There have been many very fine women composers. Tonight I’ve been listening to Ethel Smyth’s evocative string quintet in E major, so she scores an entry this evening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. Nevertheless, she was granted a damehood, the first female composer to be so honoured.

….Smyth’s extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the “most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten.” In 2022 it was performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the first professional production in its original French libretto. It was also performed at the BBC Proms, where its prelude or overture was included 27 times between 1913 and 1947.

Another of her operas, Der Wald, mounted in 1903, was, for more than a century, the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin in December 2016).

On 28 May 1928, the nascent BBC broadcast two concerts of Smyth’s music, marking her “musical jubilee”, The first comprised chamber music, the second, conducted by Smyth herself, choral works. Otherwise, recognition in England came somewhat late for Ethel Smyth, wrote the conductor Leon Botstein at the time he conducted the American Symphony Orchestra’s US premiere of The Wreckers in New York on 30 September 2007:

On her seventy-fifth birthday in 1934, under Beecham’s direction, her work was celebrated in a festival, the final event of which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen. Heartbreakingly, at this moment of long-overdue recognition, the composer was already completely deaf and could hear neither her own music nor the adulation of the crowds.

Her final major work was the hour long vocal symphony The Prison, setting a text by Henry Bennett Brewster. It was first performed in 1931. The first recording was issued by Chandos in 2020. However, she found a new interest in literature and, between 1919 and 1940, she published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books.

….Involvement with the suffrage movement

Ethel Smyth March of the Women
In 1910, Smyth joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), which agitated for women’s suffrage, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. She accompanied the charismatic leader of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, on many occasions, and her “The March of the Women” (1911) became the anthem of the suffragette movement.

Smyth is credited with teaching Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw stones in 1912. After further practice aiming stones at trees near the home of fellow suffragette, Zelie Emerson, Pankhurst called on WPSU members to break a window of the house of any politician who opposed votes for women. Smyth was one of the 109 members who responded to Pankhurst’s call, asking to be sent to attack the home of Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt, who had remarked that if his wife’s beauty and wisdom was present in all women, they would have already won the vote.

Smyth stood half the bail for Helen Craggs, who had been caught on the way to carry out the arson of the leading politician’s home. During the stone throwing, Pankhurst and 100 other women were arrested, and Smyth served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham, her proponent-friend, went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out of a window conducting the song with a toothbrush.

March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMjOAxktS0

:)

Here’s Johanna Varner and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet playing her Quintet in E Major, with the full score unfolding on screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNaS5H-F6U

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMjOAxktS0

:)

Here’s Johanna Varner and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet playing her Quintet in E Major, with the full score unfolding on screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNaS5H-F6U

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

There have been many very fine women composers. Tonight I’ve been listening to Ethel Smyth’s evocative string quintet in E major, so she scores an entry this evening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

Ethel Smyth

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE (22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

Smyth tended to be marginalised as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. Yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticised for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. Nevertheless, she was granted a damehood, the first female composer to be so honoured.

….Smyth’s extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the “most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten.” In 2022 it was performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the first professional production in its original French libretto. It was also performed at the BBC Proms, where its prelude or overture was included 27 times between 1913 and 1947.

Another of her operas, Der Wald, mounted in 1903, was, for more than a century, the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin in December 2016).

On 28 May 1928, the nascent BBC broadcast two concerts of Smyth’s music, marking her “musical jubilee”, The first comprised chamber music, the second, conducted by Smyth herself, choral works. Otherwise, recognition in England came somewhat late for Ethel Smyth, wrote the conductor Leon Botstein at the time he conducted the American Symphony Orchestra’s US premiere of The Wreckers in New York on 30 September 2007:

On her seventy-fifth birthday in 1934, under Beecham’s direction, her work was celebrated in a festival, the final event of which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen. Heartbreakingly, at this moment of long-overdue recognition, the composer was already completely deaf and could hear neither her own music nor the adulation of the crowds.

Her final major work was the hour long vocal symphony The Prison, setting a text by Henry Bennett Brewster. It was first performed in 1931. The first recording was issued by Chandos in 2020. However, she found a new interest in literature and, between 1919 and 1940, she published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books.

….Involvement with the suffrage movement

Ethel Smyth March of the Women
In 1910, Smyth joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), which agitated for women’s suffrage, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. She accompanied the charismatic leader of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, on many occasions, and her “The March of the Women” (1911) became the anthem of the suffragette movement.

Smyth is credited with teaching Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw stones in 1912. After further practice aiming stones at trees near the home of fellow suffragette, Zelie Emerson, Pankhurst called on WPSU members to break a window of the house of any politician who opposed votes for women. Smyth was one of the 109 members who responded to Pankhurst’s call, asking to be sent to attack the home of Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt, who had remarked that if his wife’s beauty and wisdom was present in all women, they would have already won the vote.

Smyth stood half the bail for Helen Craggs, who had been caught on the way to carry out the arson of the leading politician’s home. During the stone throwing, Pankhurst and 100 other women were arrested, and Smyth served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham, her proponent-friend, went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out of a window conducting the song with a toothbrush.

March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMjOAxktS0

:)

Here’s Johanna Varner and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet playing her Quintet in E Major, with the full score unfolding on screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNaS5H-F6U

It doesn’t do a lot for me.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed here by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMjOAxktS0

:)

Here’s Johanna Varner and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet playing her Quintet in E Major, with the full score unfolding on screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNaS5H-F6U

It doesn’t do a lot for me.

Try the best bits, the second and (especially) fourth movements. But the rest of it is good background if you’re in the mood.

Kathleen Butler

Kathleen M. Butler (27 February 1891 – 19 July 1972) was nicknamed the “Godmother of Sydney Harbour Bridge”. As the first person appointed to Chief Engineer J.J.C, Bradfield’s team, as his Confidential Secretary, (a role which today would be called a technical adviser or project manager), she managed the international tendering process and oversaw the development of the technical plans, travelling to London in 1924 to supervise the project in the offices of Dornan’s, the company which won the tender. At the time it was built, Sydney Harbour Bridge was the largest arch bridge in the world, with the build expected to take six years to complete. Her unusual role garnered much interest in the press in Australia and Britain.

Kathleen M. Butler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie

Link

The inventor of Monopoly.

Greta Thunberg

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS (Swedish: (listen); born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

Thunberg’s activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her Fridays outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for Climate). Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward and blunt speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.

“The Greta effect”

Beginning in early 2019, roughly concurrent with growing public recognition of Thunberg’s work, Google trends data shows a growth in searches for the term climate emergency (shown in red), and for the term climate crisis (shown in blue). The surge in 2006 followed release of Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.

PermeateFree said:

Greta Thunberg

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS (Swedish: (listen); born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

Thunberg’s activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her Fridays outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for Climate). Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward and blunt speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.

“The Greta effect”

Beginning in early 2019, roughly concurrent with growing public recognition of Thunberg’s work, Google trends data shows a growth in searches for the term climate emergency (shown in red), and for the term climate crisis (shown in blue). The surge in 2006 followed release of Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

Greta Thunberg

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS (Swedish: (listen); born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

Thunberg’s activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her Fridays outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for Climate). Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward and blunt speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.

“The Greta effect”

Beginning in early 2019, roughly concurrent with growing public recognition of Thunberg’s work, Google trends data shows a growth in searches for the term climate emergency (shown in red), and for the term climate crisis (shown in blue). The surge in 2006 followed release of Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.

She is quite remarkable.

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

PermeateFree said:

Greta Thunberg

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS (Swedish: (listen); born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

Thunberg’s activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her Fridays outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for Climate). Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward and blunt speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.

“The Greta effect”

Beginning in early 2019, roughly concurrent with growing public recognition of Thunberg’s work, Google trends data shows a growth in searches for the term climate emergency (shown in red), and for the term climate crisis (shown in blue). The surge in 2006 followed release of Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.

She is quite remarkable.

She is indeed. Iontach! (Wonderful!)

They use her a lot to focus the anxious students on that they can make a change and become a voice. So they don’t feel so helpless and hopeless about climate change.

LPlaterfoghlaimeoirGaeilge said:

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

She is quite remarkable.

She is indeed. Iontach! (Wonderful!)

They use her a lot to focus the anxious students on that they can make a change and become a voice. So they don’t feel so helpless and hopeless about climate change.

This to me looks like a person whose parents are right behind her all the way.

roughbarked said:

LPlaterfoghlaimeoirGaeilge said:

roughbarked said:

She is quite remarkable.

She is indeed. Iontach! (Wonderful!)

They use her a lot to focus the anxious students on that they can make a change and become a voice. So they don’t feel so helpless and hopeless about climate change.

This to me looks like a person whose parents are right behind her all the way.

Imagine a generation who grows up like that. A generation who feels supported by their parents! It would be amazing what could occur.

LPlaterfoghlaimeoirGaeilge said:

roughbarked said:

LPlaterfoghlaimeoirGaeilge said:

She is indeed. Iontach! (Wonderful!)

They use her a lot to focus the anxious students on that they can make a change and become a voice. So they don’t feel so helpless and hopeless about climate change.

This to me looks like a person whose parents are right behind her all the way.

Imagine a generation who grows up like that. A generation who feels supported by their parents! It would be amazing what could occur.

In this, my thoughts and prayers do flow.