Kate Norgate

Kate Norgate (8 December 1853 – 17 April 1935)[1] was a British historian. She was one of the first women to achieve academic success in this sphere,[2] and is best known for her history of England under the Angevin kings and for coining the name Angevin Empire to describe their domains. She was self-educated in the Victorian era when higher education was generally denied to women. Her obituary in The Times described her as "the most learned woman historian of the pre-academic period."[3]

  1. ^ "Norgate, Kate (1853–1935), historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35248. ISBN 9780198614111. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Woolf, D. R., ed. (3 June 2014). "Norgate, Kate by Ellen Jacobs". A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. Vol. II K–Z. Routledge. p. 663. ISBN 978-1-134-81998-0.
  3. ^ Peterson, Linda H., ed. (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing. Cambridge University Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-316-39034-4.