“It was a good way for a woman to get an education,” she says. She became an early feminist and marched away from the monks, saying ‘We girls can set up on our own’. “Music has made my life much more interesting, but I don’t think I was good enough to be at the top. I make myself watch it because I think I ought to know what I’m perpetrating…”She pauses, watching for a reaction, before bustling on. She wrote saying her husband had died several years earlier, and she returned to her empty home feeling very low.