How the Hypocrites Made a Feminist Cinderella Even More Feminist

Chicago magazine | Arts & Culture November 2016: As an esteemed composer in the mid-1800s, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a living oxymoron. Through the 19th century, the title “female composer” was about as common as "airplane pilot"—and on the rare occasion women were recognized for their work, it was under a male pseudonym á la Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.