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urn:uuid:667003ac-b7c4-416e-9bb1-412c09dd895d 03 15 9781805112365 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Eliza Orme’s Ambitions Politics and the Law in Victorian London 1 A01 Leslie Howsam Leslie Howsam is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emerita Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor (as well as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University). Her most recent book is the Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (2015); her best-known book is Old Books & New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture (2006). For further information please see https://lesliehowsam.ca 01 eng 00 176 03 12 BGH 10 BIO022000 23 Eliza Orme 04 KD632.O76 23 Women and Gender Studies 12 1DBK 10 HIS015000 23 History 23 History of British women in higher education 23 Biography 12 JFSJ1 10 SOC028000 23 Women's suffrage 23 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 12 HBLL 23 late-Victorian and Edwardian ages 10 POL015000 12 HBJD1 10 HIS037060 23 Legal community 23 Women's professional lives 01 06 03 00 Why 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. 04 00 About the Author List of Illustrations Prologue 1. An Unthinkable Job for a Woman 2. Before Law, 1848 to 1871 3. The Commitment to Law: 1872 to 1888 4. Private Life 5. Public Figure: 1888 to about 1903 6. Journalism and Authorship 7. Last Years 8. Who Was Eliza Orme? Appendices Eliza Orme: A Partial Bibliography Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240308 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805112334 06 15 9781805112341 06 15 9781805112358 06 15 9781805112389 06 15 9781805112365 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD