Thoth distribution@thoth.pub 20260429T145346

urn:uuid:667003ac-b7c4-416e-9bb1-412c09dd895d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:667003ac-b7c4-416e-9bb1-412c09dd895d 15 9781805112358 06 10.11647/OBP.0392 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Eliza Orme’s Ambitions Politics and the Law in Victorian London 1 A01 21 0000-0001-7160-9436 Leslie Howsam First edition. 01 eng 00 176 03 12 BGH 10 BIO022000 93 DNB 04 KD632.O76 B2 Women and Gender Studies 12 1DBK 10 HIS015000 B2 History 93 NHD B2 Biography 93 JBSF1 12 JFSJ1 10 SOC028000 B2 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 12 HBLL 93 JPL 10 POL015000 12 HBJD1 10 HIS037060 01 06 03 00 <p>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. </p><p>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.</p> 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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240308 2024 06 15 9781805112334 06 15 9781805112341 06 15 9781805112358 06 15 9781805112389 06 15 9781805112365 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0392 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0392.pdf 99 01