UID:
kobvindex_HPB1427068057
Umfang:
1 online resource (178 p.)
ISBN:
9781805112358
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180511235X
Inhalt:
"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."--Publisher's website.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Intro -- _Hlk157782349 -- About the Author -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. An Unthinkable Job for a Woman -- Eliza and Me, and the 1980s -- 2. Before Law, 1848 to 1871 -- Eliza and Me, 1989-2016 -- 3. The Commitment to Law: 1872 to 1888 -- From Lincoln's Inn Fees to 'a Miniature Girton' -- Discrimination and Challenges -- 'A Fine Chaos': Co-workers and Business Partners -- 4. Private Life -- Family and Childhood -- Friends and (perhaps) Lovers -- Playing to the Gallery -- 5. Public Figure: 1888 to about 1903 -- Public Engagement and the Campaign for Irish Home Rule
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The Women's Liberal Federation Splits over the Question of Suffrage -- Factory Inspection and the Royal Commission -- Prison Committee -- An Independent Single Professional Woman in Public Life -- 6. Journalism and Authorship -- Contributions to The Examiner, Englishwoman's Review and Longman's (and an Index) -- Leaders for the Weekly Dispatch -- The Women's Gazette and the Royal Commission -- A Trial in India, a Literary Labour of Love, and More -- National Biography -- 7. Last Years -- Contemporaneities -- Retirement -- 8. Who Was Eliza Orme? -- Eliza and Me, since 2016
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Loyalty, Logic, and Strategy: The Case of Charles Dilke's Divorce Scandal -- Speculation: Eliza's Thwarted Ambition -- Who was Eliza to Her Friends and Family? -- Who Was Miss Orme to Lawyers (Then and Now)? -- Who Was She to Posterity? -- Appendices -- Acknowledgements -- Documentation -- Major Figures, and Families -- Eliza Orme: A Partial Bibliography -- Correspondence (Manuscript and Print) -- Eliza Orme's Known Publications (in Chronological Order) -- Publications about Eliza Orme -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Howsam, Leslie Eliza Orme's Ambitions Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,c2024
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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