Emily Rosaline Orme

Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) was a Scottish suffragist. She was the leader of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Early life Orme was born in 1835, one of eight children to parents Eliza Andrews (1816–1892) and Charles Orme (c. 1807–1893), from a wealthy brewing and distilling family.

Orme was also introduced to the academic David Masson (1822–1907), by the librarian at the British Museum, Coventry Patmore. Patmore, who was also a poet and critic, was married to her maternal aunt, the author and Pre-Raphaelite muse Emily Augusta Patmore ( Andrews; 1824–1862). Patmore wrote the poem The Angel in the House which ironically was praising the female sphere as domestic and family and male as public sphere.

Marriage Orme married Masson on 27 August 1853, and also spoke at Edinburgh later on the topic of women's suffrage. and he also supported medical education for women. and finally Lockharton Gardens. Orme joined the suffrage group, the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1874, two years later became a member of its executive committee and then joint honorary secretary with Eliza Wigham from 1877.

In 1881, her daughter Flora Masson joined the Edinburgh Ladies Debating Society with her mother and questions of suffrage were debated by the group regularly.

Orme's husband, David Masson died in 1907, and she and her daughters informed the press that no one was to write a biography or publish his letters.

Family Her daughters Flora Masson (1856–1937), a nurse, Orme had another daughter Helen and a son Sir David Orme Masson who became the first professor of chemistry at the University of Melbourne. Her sister Eliza Orme was the first woman to gain a law degree in England. Her younger brother Augustus Charles Andrews became a bank clerk and his daughter Mabel Barltrop became a religious leader and prophet in Bedford.