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	:"I wonder why it is so much easier for me to love my own sex passionately than yours. I can't make it out for I am a very healthy-minded person."<ref>Christopher St John, ''Ethel Smyth: A Biography''. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1959.</ref>		:"I wonder why it is so much easier for me to love my own sex passionately than yours. I can't make it out for I am a very healthy-minded person."<ref>Christopher St John, ''Ethel Smyth: A Biography''. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1959.</ref>

			In the 1880s she had affairs with [[Mary Benson]], wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and then with Mary's daughter Nellie.

	Smyth was at one time in love with the married suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. At age 71 she fell in love with writer [[Virginia Woolf]], who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab", but the two became friends.<ref >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/742066?uid=3739816&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101880497627 Kathleen A Abromeit "Ethel Smyth, ''The Wreckers'', and Sir Thomas Beecham", ''The Musical Quarterly'', Vol. 73, issue 2, 1989, pages 196–211</ref>		Smyth was at one time in love with the married suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. At age 71 she fell in love with writer [[Virginia Woolf]], who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab", but the two became friends.<ref >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/742066?uid=3739816&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101880497627 Kathleen A Abromeit "Ethel Smyth, ''The Wreckers'', and Sir Thomas Beecham", ''The Musical Quarterly'', Vol. 73, issue 2, 1989, pages 196–211</ref>

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	She lived for many years at Frimhurst, near [[Frimley Green]].<ref>Dieter Jebens and R Cansdale, ''Guide to the Basingstoke Canal''. Basingstoke Canal Authority and the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society, 2004. (2nd Edition)</ref>		She lived for many years at Frimhurst, near [[Frimley Green]].<ref>Dieter Jebens and R Cansdale, ''Guide to the Basingstoke Canal''. Basingstoke Canal Authority and the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society, 2004. (2nd Edition)</ref>

	==~~Womens~~' suffrage==		==Women's suffrage==

	In 1910 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, which was campaigning for votes for women. She wrote the movement's anthem, "The March of the Women" and was sent to prison for breaking a politician's window.		In 1910 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, which was campaigning for votes for women. She wrote the movement's anthem, "The March of the Women" and was sent to prison for breaking a politician's window.

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	[[File:John Singer Sargent Dame Ethel Smyth.jpg\|thumb\|Portrain of Dame Ethel Smyth by [[John Singer Sargent]]]]'''Dame ~~Ethyl~~ Smyth''' ('''Ethel Mary Smyth''', 1858–1944) was a composer, writer, and campaigner for women's rights.		[[File:John Singer Sargent Dame Ethel Smyth.jpg\|thumb\|Portrain of Dame Ethel Smyth by [[John Singer Sargent]]]]'''Dame Ethel Smyth''' ('''Ethel Mary Smyth''', 1858–1944) was a composer, writer, and campaigner for women's rights.

	She was born in [[South London]]. Her father, an army general, was very much opposed to her persuing a career in music, but she finally persuaded him to let her study at the Leipzig, Conservatory, where she met Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Tchaikovsky<ref>http://womencomposers.org/composer/show/8 Women Composers: Dame Ethel Smyth</ref>		She was born in [[South London]]. Her father, an army general, was very much opposed to her persuing a career in music, but she finally persuaded him to let her study at the Leipzig, Conservatory, where she met Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Tchaikovsky<ref>http://womencomposers.org/composer/show/8 Women Composers: Dame Ethel Smyth</ref>

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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	Smyth had several passionate affairs, most of them with women. Her philosopher-friend and the librettist of some of her operas, [[Henry Bennet Brewster]], may have been her only male lover. She wrote to him in 1892: "I wonder why it is so much easier for me to love my own sex passionately than yours. I can't make it out for I am a very healthy-minded person."<ref>Christopher St John, ''Ethel Smyth: A Biography''. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1959.</ref> Smyth was at one time in love with the married suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. At age 71 she fell in love with writer [[Virginia Woolf]], who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab", but the two became friends.<ref >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/742066?uid=3739816&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101880497627 Kathleen A Abromeit "Ethel Smyth, ''The Wreckers'', and Sir Thomas Beecham", ''The Musical Quarterly'', Vol. 73, issue 2, 1989, pages 196–211</ref>		Smyth had several passionate affairs, most of them with women. Her philosopher-friend and the librettist of some of her operas, [[Henry Bennet Brewster]], may have been her only male lover. She wrote to him in 1892:

			:"I wonder why it is so much easier for me to love my own sex passionately than yours. I can't make it out for I am a very healthy-minded person."<ref>Christopher St John, ''Ethel Smyth: A Biography''. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1959.</ref>

			Smyth was at one time in love with the married suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. At age 71 she fell in love with writer [[Virginia Woolf]], who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab", but the two became friends.<ref >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/742066?uid=3739816&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101880497627 Kathleen A Abromeit "Ethel Smyth, ''The Wreckers'', and Sir Thomas Beecham", ''The Musical Quarterly'', Vol. 73, issue 2, 1989, pages 196–211</ref>

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

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	She was born in [[South London]]. Her father, an army general, was very much opposed to her persuing a career in music, but she finally persuaded him to let her study at the Leipzig, Conservatory, where she met Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Tchaikovsky<ref>http://womencomposers.org/composer/show/8 Women Composers: Dame Ethel Smyth</ref>		She was born in [[South London]]. Her father, an army general, was very much opposed to her persuing a career in music, but she finally persuaded him to let her study at the Leipzig, Conservatory, where she met Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Tchaikovsky<ref>http://womencomposers.org/composer/show/8 Women Composers: Dame Ethel Smyth</ref>

			She lived for many years at Frimhurst, near [[Frimley Green]].<ref>Dieter Jebens and R Cansdale, ''Guide to the Basingstoke Canal''. Basingstoke Canal Authority and the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society, 2004. (2nd Edition)</ref>

	==Womens' suffrage==		==Womens' suffrage==