The English Ladies' Orchestral Society was one of the first and largest amateur orchestras for women in the UK, founded in 1893.
Liddle first organised a series of concerts featuring orchestras for female players in 1877.
One later concert, held in Leeds on 29 October 1903, featured Max Bruch's op.
[8] Partly due to a shortage of male musicians as war was declared in 1914, female musicians - including Rebecca Clarke (viola) and Jessie Grimson (violin) - were gradually admitted into mainstream, mixed professional orchestras such as Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra for the first time.
Gwynne Kimpton founded the British Women's Symphony Orchestra in 1923.