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Article: Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and music: listening as a productive mode of social interaction.
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- June 22, 2005
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On Christmas Eve 1940, just three months before her death, Virginia Woolf wrote to Dame Ethel Smyth, a good friend and then-contemporary composer of opera: "Yes, I will come one day soon. Because I must exchange ideas" (Nicolson 1980, 6:454). Listening to the exchange of ideas between Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) reveals that the relationship enabled Woolf to make new connections between art and subjectivity. Encountering Smyth as an engaged intellectual and a musician, getting to know and to disagree with her, became part of Woolf's elaboration of new forms of being and writing. More specifically, Smyth was a friend and artistic colleague ...
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Article: Curtis, Vanessa. Virginia Woolf's Women.(Book Review)
Studies in the Novel;
September 22, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... women to influence Virginia Woolf's life and work. Curtis ... reports, is to reveal "a side of Woolf that is perhaps not so widely ... West, and composer Ethel Smyth. Another chapter includes a ... about these women as it is about Woolf's relationships with them ...
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