Picture No | 11657313 |
Date | 1903 |
Description | Tatler cover - Bertha Cave |
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Front cover of The Tatler featuring Bertha Cave, who, in 1902 was admitted to Bar at Gray's Inn but was consequently refused admission by a special tribunal of judges on the ground there was no precedent for women being called to the English Bar. It was not until the 1919 Sex Discrimination Act that women were eventually admitted to the Bar.
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Source | Front cover of The Tatler, 9 December 1903 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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