Laura Ormiston Chant

-
Standard Name: Chant, Laura Ormiston
Birth Name: Laura Ormiston Dibbin
Pseudonym: Sister Sophia
Used Form: Mrs Ormiston Chant
Married Name: Laura Ormiston Dibbin Chant
LOC published numerous pamphlets and speeches on social purity, temperance, and women's rights, as well as songs, a novel, and a book of poetry that includes a feminist verse novel. Her writing reflects many of the tensions characterizing feminism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Black and white photograph of Laura Ormiston Chant, seated in an ornately carved rocking chair with one elbow resting on an armrest, her arm upright and her head propped against that hand. Her other arm is outstretched so that hand can rest on the other armrest. She wears a dress with a pattern of stitched vines and buttons up the front, and her hair is pulled back.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Isabella Ormston Ford
On 23 April 1892 IOF contributed an article entitled Women and the Labour Party to a special series for the Leeds Times on Social and Political Questions by Representative English Women. Other notable contributors...

Timeline

August 1885: The most powerful social purity organization,...

National or international item

August 1885

The most powerful social purity organization, the National Vigilance Association , was founded.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
122-5
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
129

13 May 1886: The National Association for the Repeal of...

National or international item

13 May 1886

The National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts held its last meeting. It considered its work completed following the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
133
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
99

1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla...

National or international item

1886

Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla Bright McLaren and Anna Maria Priestman to help organise a British delegation to an international conference of suffragists in Washington.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
74

Texts

Chant, Laura Ormiston. A Merry Christmas. Miller’s Library, 1911.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. How I Became a Total Abstainer. 1890.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. Sellcuts’ Manager. Grant Richards, 1899.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. Verona and Other Poems. David Stott, 1887.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. Why We Attacked the Empire. Marshall and Son, 1894.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. Why We Attacked the Empire. Marshall & Son, 1895.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. “Woman as Athlete: A Reply to Dr. Arabella Kenealy”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
45
, pp. 745-54.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. “Women and the Streets”. Public Morals, Morgan and Scott, 1902.
Chant, Laura Ormiston. “Women and the Streets”. Public Morals, edited by Sir James Marchant, Morgan and Scott, 1908.