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...system in danger of inundation, transformation and loss. It is a place of work, a giver and taker of lives and livelihoods. At the same time, it is a zone of leisure and pleasure, innocent pastimes, robust healthy exercise, over-indulgence and covert assignations. In each of these ways and more the sounds of the seaside are deeply engrained in our cultural consciousness....

...system was permanently weakened. She was ill for almost the rest of her life, suffering from regular flare-ups of the chronic intestinal tuberculosis which ultimately led to her early death. Boulanger became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata...