id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_sq2lpvpzcjh25he6jqjkx4cwvi C. Wiley Music and Literature: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and "The First Woman to Write an Opera" 2013 55 .pdf application/pdf 16254 913 65 Music and Literature: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and generously described Smyth as the first woman to compose an opera;27 elsewhere Woolf herself from other examples of "women who try to write music" (to borrow Woolf's Smyth's feminist writings can be regarded as musical counterparts to Woolf's own, then the that music was Smyth's field, and that the composer should be the one to write about it. Smyth's short article "Composers and Critics,"95 Woolf had written, "What I should like would further reason why Woolf held that Smyth's operas represented genuine "women's work" in the Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and the Challenges of Lesbian Auto/biography," Music and Letters Clements, "Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and Music," 51. Music and Literature: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and "The First Woman to Write an Opera" Music and Literature: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and "The First Woman to Write an Opera" ./cache/work_sq2lpvpzcjh25he6jqjkx4cwvi.pdf ./txt/work_sq2lpvpzcjh25he6jqjkx4cwvi.txt