Once, in a roomful of people, someone suddenly said: "I wonder what becomes of all the delightful and interesting children one has known” … In Impressions That Remain, composer and suffragette, Ethel Mary Smyth, looks back at her childhood in Victorian England. Born in Sidcup, Kent, in 1858, she was the fourth of eight children of John Hall Smyth, a major general in the Royal Artillery who was very much opposed to her making a career in music.   Although she went on to write operas and compose oratorios, concertos and chamber-music pieces, Ethel continued to face a barrage of sexist criticism throughout her career and was consistently referred to as a "lady composer". She became a vigorous crusader for women’s rights alongside Emmeline Pankhurst, as well as an energetic and consistently interesting writer of memoirs. The March of Women, which she wrote in 1911, became the battle cry for the British Women’s Movement suffrage movement.   Ernest Newman, in his introduction to the book, describes Ethel Smyth as “one of the most remarkable women of her epoch” and ‘Impressions that Remain’ as “one of the half-dozen best autobiographies in the English language” Published by Longmans, Green and Co, 1919, this is a first edition. The book contains 7 facing page illustrations. This is a used library book in fair condition. All pages are present. No dust-jacket. The binding is intact, except for the boards which are on the point of becoming loose, but not yet.