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Ethel Smyth

 

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Virginia Woolf : A Room of One's Own

From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired [Ethel Smyth] with the desire to meet the author, which she did in 1930'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

  

Virginia Woolf : The Years

Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How can this be true of any mind?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

  

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse : unknown

'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat in the lounge reading P.G.Wodehouse.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

 

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