Clementina Black

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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, 1996.
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She also took pains to get the voices and stories of working-class women into print.
Title page of Clementina Black's second novel, "Orlando", 1879 (1880 on title-page), vol. 1. This story contrasts a lost world of romance with a modern world in which women can be self-directed.
"Clementina Black, title-page" Retrieved from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t9571s43c&view=1up&seq=5. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license. This work is in the public domain.

Milestones

27 July 1853
CB was born in Brighton.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.
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Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
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July 1876
July 1876, CB 's first published work, a short story titled The Troubles of an Automaton, appeared in the New Quarterly Magazine.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1989.
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6 June 1918
CB 's final work, A New Way of Housekeeping, stressed the need to improve the conditions of working women and the implements used in domestic work.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
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19 December 1922
CB died of cardiac failure at Barnes in Surrey.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.
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Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Biography

Birth and Family

27 July 1853
CB was born in Brighton.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.
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Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
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