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Radio 3,1 min

Listen to Ethel Smyth's suffragette battle hymn: March of the Women

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Dame Ethel Smyth's empowering, rousing song is otherwise known as “the Marseillaise of the suffrage movement”. Smyth showed tenacity and courage in pursuing her career as a composer at a time when this was an unusual path for women.

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