Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorHowsam, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T10:48:16Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T10:48:16Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88605
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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBH Biography: historical, political and militaryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britainen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girlsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.otherEliza Orme;History of British women in higher education;Women's suffrage;late-Victorian and Edwardian ages;Legal community;Women's professional livesen_US
dc.titleEliza Orme’s Ambitionsen_US
dc.title.alternativePolitics and the Law in Victorian Londonen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0392en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805112334en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805112341en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805112389en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805112365en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805112372en_US
oapen.pages178en_US
oapen.place.publicationCambridgeen_US


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record