Ethel Smyth (22 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was a distinguished British composer and suffragist.
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"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." - Wikipedia
Dame Ethel Smythe
(No longer lithe),
Thought Woolf was a sensation.
We’re told Woolf thought,
(Amused, but fraught),
It was a lot
Like being caught
By an oversized crustacean.
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