Alice Coomaraswamy

She recorded Indian music and was a performer of Hindu songs and poems, and went on concert tours in Britain and America.

Martin Clayton identifies Alice as one of the significant women overlooked with regard to music in the British Empire.

The book gave the musical notation for thirty songs and included an introduction by Bengal polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who was very gracious about Alice's singing.

[1] Apart from the press, she also received good reviews from the composer Percy Grainger, the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poet W. B.

[6] In 1916 Alice became pregnant as a result of, according to the occultist and magician Aleister Crowley, becoming involved in sex magic rituals.

[7] Alice and her husband were both in America in 1917 where under the stage name Ratan Devi she completed a concert tour.