# Cornelia Sorabji

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Sujata Massey: Delectable feminist mystery and historical fiction set in Japan and India

The second “Writer on Resilience” is one of my favorites, Sujata Massey. Born to an Indian father and a German mother, Sujata's family immigrated to the US when she was five. She found it difficult to make friends, experiencing prejudice and xenophobia. She was glad to put high school behind her ...

Cornelia Sorabji: Hero, Villain or Victim? Maybe All 3

Music: Tangerine by Jason Shaw Sources:  https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/cornelia-sorabji https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/cornelia-sorabji https://first100years.org.uk/cornelia-sorabji/ Email: historemixpodcast@outlook.com --- Send in a voice m ...

Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protégée in Oxford 1889-1893

Professor Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College, Oxford) - Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protígíe in Oxford 1889-1893.

10. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey

Join us for a fascinating investigation led by Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer in 1920s India- The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey.  Spoiler alert! We will be revealing whodunnit so read before you listen. There's 'tasty' Mystery Business as Maddy reveals unexpected treats f ...

Cornelia Sorabji - First Woman to Study Law at Oxford & Advocate in India

Cornelia Sorabji dreamt long and hard about becoming a lawyer, even though in India in the late 1800's women were just barely allowed to go to University at all, and were NOT permitted to law school or the court system as a whole. Born into a progressive, education-minded family, though, Corneli ...

Episode 19 : Cornelia Sorabji

Here is the story of the first woman to practice law in India and in Britain. Listen to the podcast to know how she became the first woman to pass the Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) examination but was still denied the Law degree!

Representation of women in the legal profession

Did you know that Cornelia Sorabji from India became the first woman to pass the Civil Law examinations at Oxford? Despite passing the Bar, she was not allowed to plead before the Allahabad High Court as the profession was restricted to men at the time. Over a century later, the representation o ...

Hall of Fame: The Barber of the Hindoostane Coffee House

Sathnam Sanghera joined us to find out all about Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman to graduate from an Indian university, the first woman anywhere to get a law degree – from Oxford at that – and the first woman to represent the accused in a criminal case in a British-run court. Her story is incr ...