Clementina Black

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Standard Name: Black, Clementina
Birth Name: Clementina Maria Black
Nickname: Clemmy
Nickname: Clemmie
CB wrote on a range of topics across many genres. Her work included six novels, journal articles, short stories, translations, plays, children's literature, and over seventy essays. She edited several journals which emerged from the late Victorian feminist movement, and wrote prolifically on the rights of the working classes and the need for trade unions.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
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She also took pains to get the voices and stories of working-class women into print.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
politics Jane Hume Clapperton
Among others the committee also included Clementina Black , Beatrice Webb , and Maud Pember Reeves . It was attended by Emma Brooke and Isabella Ford .
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen, editor. Women in Industrial Life: The International Congress of Women of 1899. T. Fisher Unwin.
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Friends, Associates Ménie Muriel Dowie
As a public literary figure MMD moved amongst the major writers of her day. At the Women Writers' Dinner of the New Vagabonds Club in June 1895, she spoke alongside Adeline Sergeant , Christabel Coleridge
Textual Production Ménie Muriel Dowie
She expressed her view that the novel of the future would discuss the woman of the future—the public woman who sat on committees—and whose story is so far unknown.
“19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
Daily News 15346 (6 June 1895): 6
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
In the mid-1880s, under the influence of a family friend, Emma Paterson (the president of the Women's Protective and Provident League), IOF became involved with trade union organization in Leeds, with a particular...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Garnett
Her sister Clementina became well known as a labour activist who fought for an improvement in women's rights and the rights of the working classes. She was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction...
Education Constance Garnett
Constance's education began at home with her mother. Her elder sister Clementina taught her French and German. Her brothers were primarily responsible for her early introduction to mathematics and geography.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter.
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Reception Margaret Harkness
MH 's socialist novels have begun to be republished since the mid 1980s. Until the 1990s academic interest in her was limited to Engels's famous letter to her and a few chapters in books on...
Travel Amy Levy
AL , with Clementina Black , stayed at Casa Guidi, Florence, once the home of Elizabeth and Robert Browning .
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Dedications Amy Levy
AL 's final volume of poems appeared posthumously under the title A London Plane-Tree, dedicated to Clementina Black .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Friends, Associates Amy Levy
They included Olive Schreiner , the future Beatrice Webb , Dollie Maitland Radford , Margaret Harkness , Clementina Black (whose sister Constance had been a school friend of AL ), and Eleanor Marx . Through...
Leisure and Society Amy Levy
She confessed also that to live like Clementina Black and her sister, doing their own housework, did not accord with my own Philistine, middle class notions of comfort.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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She engaged, however, in socially provocative...
Occupation Amy Levy
She also this year helped Clementina Black in the office of the Women's Protective and Provident League .
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Publishing Amy Levy
She had written most of its new contents at Dresden and elsewhere on her travels.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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As early as 1882 AL commissioned Clementina Black to approach publishers about what became this book. She had in...
Fictionalization Amy Levy
Quite apart from the biographical errors perpetrated by James Warwick Price , other myths about her were woven from her Jewishness and her suicide. Her friend Clementina Black (perhaps feeling that her reputation needed rescue)...

Timeline

2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...

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2 May 1857

A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum .

Late 1889: An informal alliance was made between the...

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Late 1889

An informal alliance was made between the Women's Co-operative Guild and the recently-formed Women's Trade Union Association , a sister organisation of working women.

26 November 1894: The Women's Industrial Council was formed...

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26 November 1894

The Women's Industrial Council was formed in London (with Richard Haldane as President) from the earlier Women's Trade Union Association .

1906: The Anti-Sweating League was founded in England...

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1906

The Anti-Sweating League was founded in England to fight for improved conditions and better rights for sweated workers.

15 April 1909: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...

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15 April 1909

The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , began weekly publication in Manchester.

20 October 1909: The Trade Boards Act was passed—a success...

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20 October 1909

The Trade Boards Act was passed—a success for feminist campaigns against sweatshops and for minimum wages in the British clothing industry.

30 January 1920: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...

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30 January 1920

The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , ended publication in London under this name, even as subtitle. The next number appeared as The Woman's Leader.

Texts

Black, Clementina. A New Way of Housekeeping. W. Collins Sons, 1918.
Black, Clementina. A Sussex Idyl. Samuel Tinsley, 1877.
Meyer, Adèle Levis, and Clementina Black. Makers of Our Clothes: A Case for the Trade Boards. Duckworth, 1909.
Black, Clementina, editor. Married Women’s Work. G. Bell and Sons, 1915.
Black, Clementina, editor. Married Women’s Work. Garland, 1980.
Black, Clementina. Mericas, and Other Stories. W. Satchell, 1880.
Black, Clementina. Orlando. Smith, Elder, 1879.
Black, Clementina, and Alfred George Gardiner. Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage. Duckworth, 1907.