Collection includes: Letter, 1892 June 8, Boston, to Miss Brewer, Hingham, thanking her for sending flowers; (copy) photograph of Amy Beach with her husband; newspaper clippings; 3 clipped portraits; an article, "Mrs. Beach, the American Composer," by Louis C. Elson, pub. in The Musician (Boston, Mass.), vol. X, no. 7 (July, 1905); photograph, dated 1906 Nov. 11, of the composer and pianist Mary Knight Mason (with her husband, Mr. Wood, James Morris Whiton, and Mrs. Whiton.

This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Adrienne Fried Block has written a biography that takes full account of issues of gender and musical modernism, considering Beach in the contexts of her time and of her composer contemporaries, both male and female. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian will be of great interest to students and scholars of American music, and to music lovers in general.

The first book in twenty-five years to survey the life and music of America's pioneering female composer of concert works.

Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world