EMMA RITTER-BONDY’S DIARY

“The diary of Emma Ritter-Bondy tells the story of an astonishing woman. Born in Austria, she was appointed the professor of piano in 1891, the year after the Athenaeum became a music school. She was the first woman to be appointed a professor in the UK by some margin – it was previously thought to be Edith Morley at the University of Reading in 1908. Ritter-Bondy was the widow of artist Franz Ritter and the mother of two children.”