the General Strike in London under the slogan 'Women Unite to Save the Nation.' Elsie wrote to the editor of The Spectator publicising the event; stating that ‘20,000 women’ were expected to attend, and emphasising that those attending ‘are the wives of working men who have had personal experience of strikes, and know what hardships they mean.’ Barrister The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 allowed women to become barristers and solicitors for the first time. Elsie was amongst the early cohorts of women barristers. She joined Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1924, practising till 1938. She was the first woman barrister to appear at the Old Bailey, in a case in which she was part of a prosecuting team against Harry Pollitt, a prominent communist, for libel. She also practiced on the South Eastern Circuit, one of the regional routes that barristers travelled on in England and Wales. Elsie wrote a legal book titled The Law of Child Protection. Later life In 1947 she went to the United States to help set up the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. On her return she lived near her mother at St Leonards-on-Sea, and then moved to a country house near Hailsham where she died after a stroke. Publications Stands there a School – Memories of Dame Frances Dove, D.B.E., Founder of Wycombe Abbey School (1965) The Law of Child Protection See also List of suffragists and suffragettes References Archives The archives of Elsie Bowerman are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7ELB External links Extract from Helena Wojtczak Notable Women of Victorian Hastings Elsie Bowerman Death Certificate on Titanic-Titanic.com Encyclopedia Titanica Elsie Bowerman Titanic Pages biography Elsie Bowerman | First 100 Years 1889 births 1973 deaths People educated at Wycombe Abbey Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge RMS Titanic survivors British people of World War I British suffragists British feminists British barristers British women lawyers Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service volunteers