LONDON, March 8 ― From the opera star who went on stage smothered in diamonds to a young widow left penniless with a small child in 19th-century Britain, a new wave of...
LONDON, March 8 ― From the opera star who went on stage smothered in diamonds to a young widow left penniless with a small child in 19th-century Britain, a new wave of “herstories” are spotlighting female voices ignored or even erased by history.
Nineteenth-century composer Ethel Smyth had to threaten to run away from home to persuade her family to allow her to study music. Despite the acclaim, Smyth found herself accused of being “out of her depth” if she pursued typically masculine pieces such as “Mass in D”, or “light and frivolous” if she restricted herself to chamber music, she said.Composer Giuseppe Verdi paid tribute to another long-forgotten female performer, Adelina Patti, as the greatest singer he had ever heard.
But it is not just the lives of rich and famous women who have been sidelined by a male-led narrative. Visitors can walk through the cobblestone courtyard where the women would have hung out their washing and peer into the rooms where they lived and slept.One of the women who lived there was widow Eliza Wheeler, who ran a market stall, and her daughter Sarah.
Her first historical re-enactment tour, launched in 2021, focused on London's witches and was so popular that last year she added a second telling the story of the capital's 18th-century sex workers.
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