An Octogenarian Song Composer: THE ELUSIVE PERSONALITY OF THE WRITER OF PLYMOUTH HOE AND CANADIAN GUNS
... i An Octogenarian Song Composer THE ELUSIVE PERSONALITY OF THE WRITER OF PLYMOUTH HOE AND CANADIAN GUNS THAT a lady may compose music is admitted; that a lady of eighty- two might compose music is admissible. But that a lady aged eighty-two could compose popular music, tunes which boys could hum and march to, seems wildly implausible. Vet it is true. The composer of the well-known war-song ...