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in London, into a well-connected middle-class family. She was the seventh of eight children of
Charles Orme (c.1806–1893) and Eliza (née Andrews) (1816–1892), daughter of Reverend Edward Andrews. Charles Orme was a distiller and Eliza Orme hosted a salon that was frequented by members of the
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University of London, arguing in favour of women's education. Four years later, the university reversed its policy and permitted women to receive degrees and in 1878, she passed the first two exams for the
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Their office prepared the paperwork for wills, mortgages and property conveyancing. Patent agency and probate settlements could be undertaken by non-solicitors as they were unregulated. In 1903 Orme was interviewed by the
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from heart failure. Her colleague Reina
Lawrence was the executor and residuary beneficiary of Orme's will when she died in 1937. They may have had an intimate relationship, referred to as a “
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between 1889 and 1891. She left in 1892 when she was invited to serve as Senior Lady
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Orme was influenced by J. S. Mill, W. A. Hunter, John
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allowed both men and women to attend lectures, she became a student there in 1872. Her teachers included
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