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In November 1962, mourners gathered at St John's Parish Church in Hampstead, North London.

They were attending the funeral of Emily Anderson.

It was packed to capacity. There were absolutely no seats available.

There was a marvellous opera singer.

It was full of music of a very, very high caliber.

Anderson had never married or had children.

The only member of her birth family who attended the service that day was a cousin.

In the main, the congregation was made up of those who had admired and loved her

from the world of classical music.

She was a musicologist. She

translated the letters of Beethoven and Mozart and she had been a professor of German at a

university, but at the same time, everybody in that room would have only known a part of Emily's

life, not the whole. Anderson had lived in Hampstead, where neighbours thought they had the measure of her.

She was a woman who had no time for fripperies, who had no time for anything that was useless, basically.

She was very businesslike, friendly, but very distant and self-contained.

She attended church and went to concerts, but beyond that, she remained apart from

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