I heard some archive recording of Dame Ethel Smythe (composer, duh) this
morning. She was speaking in 1935 of Brahms, whom she knew in youth. She
detested the man, but didn't dare say at the time, he thought that women
were 'playthings' except in the 'kitchen or the nursery'.
In 1912 she was imprisoned for 2 months in Holloway Gaol (correct spelling,
Guardian) for her part in the Suffragette stone-throwing at 10 Downing St.
She described it as "the first and only time in my life I have kept good
company".
I thought the main emphasis in Alison's post was on the invisibility of
women as received commentators in the mass media during the global newsfest
that the New York explosions released. That her points about male violence
may be familiar enough to risk the role of cliché may be so but
unfortunately they are also true. Depressingly so.
The price of oil jumped for joy on September the 11th.
Best
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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