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Researching Women in Legal History: the Case of Miss Bebb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Rosemary Auchmuty
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Abstract

In the article Rosemary Auchmuty discusses the nature of, and the approach to, her research into the life of Gwyneth Bebb who in 1913 challenged the Law Society over their refusal to admit women to the solicitors' profession.

Keywords

biographylegal biographyresearch methodswomen and the lawlegal profession
Type
Legal Biography
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 19 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Auchmuty, Rosemary, ‘Whatever happened to Miss Bebb? Bebb v The Law Society and women's history’ (2010) 31 Legal Studies, pp.199–230CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Auchmuty, Rosemary, ‘Early women law students at Cambridge and Oxford’ (2008) 29 Journal of Legal History 63–97CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Later Mrs Crofts, . She became a solicitor and wrote Women Under English Law (London: National Council of Women of Great Britain, 1925)Google Scholar.

4 Sims, Sue and Clare, Hilary eds. The Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)Google Scholar.

5 Lewis, Jane, Women in England 1870–1950 (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1984) pp.117–8Google Scholar.

6 Auchmuty, Rosemary, ‘By Their Friends We Shall Know Them: The lives and networks of some women in North Lambeth, 1880–1940’, in Lesbian History Group ed. Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840–1984 (London: The Women's Press, 1989) 77–98Google Scholar.

7 Jack Hills's entry in the ODNB does not mention his support of women's entry into the legal profession. It focuses instead on his contribution to fly-fishing!

8 ‘The Woman Law Student and the Girls' College Novel’ (2007) 19 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 37–72Google Scholar.

9 See, for example, Meade, L.T., The Girls of Merton College (London: Hurst and Co: 1911)Google Scholar; Mrs Stevenson, Sinclair, Hilary: the Story of a College Girl (Oxford University Press, [1920])Google Scholar.