There With The Sea Changes: Elsie Edith Bowerman
I’ve always been interested in all things Titanic, like half the rest of the known world, but it’s always nice to be surprised with a tale one hasn’t heard before. Most of us will have heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown (famously played by Kathy Bates in James Cameron’s 1997 movie), but have you ever heard of Elsie Edith Bowerman? Well, I hadn’t. And, having heard her story, she’s another female (after Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu) whose story I feel ought to be more widely known.
I won’t give
a full biography, as the excellent video shown below does a much better job
than I could, and it is from this that I originally learned about Elsie. Suffice
it to say that this remarkable woman not only survived the Titanic sinking, but
was also heavily involved with the Pankhursts and the Suffragette movement, was
the first female barrister at the Old Bailey, and helped to set up the United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women. And somewhere along the way, she
witnessed the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in Petrograd in 1917.
As a
side note, I think it’s great when you find these YouTube channels run by true
enthusiasts. Here are links to two such channels focussed primarily on the
history of steam ships, both of which I’ve watched fairly extensively.
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