Marian Arkwright

Marian Ursula Arkwright (1863 – March 1922) was an English composer.

Marian Arkwright was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and received a doctorate in music at Durham University,[1] one of the first English women to do so.

[3] She received a prize from The Gentlewoman for an original orchestral work The Winds of the World.

[4] Her brother was the musicologist Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright.

[5] She took an interest in folk music and her Japanese Symphony contained airs that she had noted down herself.