Philobiblon

The English barrister Helena Normanton was the first married woman in Britain to be issued with a passport in her own name, in 1924.

She was also: “the first woman admitted to the “Middle Temple” as a law student… first woman to prosecute a murder case, first woman to obtain a divorce for her client, first female counsel in the High Court, the Old Bailey, and the London sessionss. In 1949, she shared the “first” of first female king’s counsel, with Rose Heilbron.”

You’ll probably never be asked those things in a pub quiz, but you can always hope.

(Learnt from Penny’s delightful Born on this day email list – which gives you a great new female character from across history every day.)