Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London

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dc.contributor.authorHowsam, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-17T13:48:18Z
dc.date.available2024-04-17T13:48:18Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-08
dc.date.updated2024-04-17T13:46:32Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractWhy are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigation in 1892, and participating actively in the women’s suffrage movement into the early twentieth century, is one such figure. Framed as a ‘research memoir’, Eliza Orme’s Ambitions fills out earlier scant accounts of this intriguing life, while speculating about why it has been overlooked. Established historian Leslie Howsam shapes the story around her own persistent curiosity in the context of a transformed research landscape, where important letters and explosive newspaper accounts have only recently come to light. These materials show how Orme’s career ambitions brought her into conflict with the male-dominated legal community of her time, while her political ambitions were cut short by disputes with other women activists whose notions of political strategy she repudiated. In public, Orme was a formidable debater for the causes she supported and against opponents whose strategies—even for women’s suffrage—she repudiated. In private, she was generous, warm, and witty, close to friends, family, and her female partner. Howsam’s account of uncovering Orme’s professional and personal trajectory will appeal to academic and non-academic readers interested in the progress and setbacks women experienced in the late-Victorian and Edwardian decades.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0392
dc.identifier.isbn9781805112334
dc.identifier.isbn9781805112341
dc.identifier.isbn9781805112358
dc.identifier.isbn9781805112389
dc.identifier.isbn9781805112365
dc.identifier.other667003ac-b7c4-416e-9bb1-412c09dd895d
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/4
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject1DBK
dc.subjectBGH
dc.subjectHBJD1
dc.subjectHBLL
dc.subjectJFSJ1
dc.subjectBIO022000
dc.subjectHIS015000
dc.subjectHIS037060
dc.subjectPOL015000
dc.subjectSOC028000
dc.subjectDNB
dc.subjectJBSF1
dc.subjectJPL
dc.subjectNHD
dc.subjectKD632.O76
dc.subjectBiography
dc.subjectEuropean Studies: English and Irish Studies
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectWomen and Gender Studies
dc.subjectEliza Orme
dc.subjectHistory of British women in higher education
dc.subjectlate-Victorian and Edwardian ages
dc.subjectLegal community
dc.subjectWomen's professional lives
dc.subjectWomen's suffrage
dc.titleEliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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