Words and Music: Women composers

"Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance... But this is woman in fiction… In fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger…in  real life she could hardly read; scarcely spell; and was the property of her husband".

                                                                                                                                                                            A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

The No Room of Her Own series celebrates the contributions of women artists, highlighting trailblazers who succeeded against many odds, after Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of Own’s Own”, in which she asserts that the absence of women in literature was due to lack of opportunity rather than absence of talent. Woolf herself was ostracized because of her identity and her "radical" intellectual views.

“A Room of One’s Own” reenactment lecture frames the series.

The Valkyrie of the Piano, a one-woman show,…