A view of the later life and interests of the English composer, writer and suffragette Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), as revealed through a lively correspondence with Elizabeth Mary Williamson, her great niece, between 1922 and 1944.
Caroline Stone was educated at Cambridge and the University of Kyoto, Japan. She has lived and worked largely in Rome and Seville, with periods in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Cambridge. Her interests include textiles, with a book and several catalogues on Chinese export embroideries published in Spanish, and travel accounts, particularly those written by people who don't normally write books - the poor, women and slaves.
