Quartet looks at how four women changed the musical world. In their day, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen were celebrities, composing groundbreaking music and pioneering creative careers. This group biography resurrects their forgotten voices, extending the classical canon forever.
Leah Broad is a music historian and Junior Research Fellow at at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Her photograph is by Monica Tomiczek. Quartet was also chosen as one of the non-fiction books of the year by the New Statesman magazine.
