Description / Table of Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781805112358
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31202810
Language:
English
Note:
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