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death | Edmund Spenser | Spenser's early women readers who were also poets seem to have included An Collins
and Alicia D'Anvers
. Later women writers in English either found him useful for raising the status of the romance genre... |
Dedications | Amy Levy | AL
's final volume of poems appeared posthumously under the title A London Plane-Tree, dedicated to Clementina Black
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 117 |
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, 1981. 16 |
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... |
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)... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | Other women writers present at the meeting were Amy Levy
, Mathilde Blind
, Clementina Black
, and Graham Tomson (later Rosamund Marriott Watson)
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 331 |
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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw
(with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb
, Sydney Olivier
, Annie Besant
, Eleanor Marx
,... |
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, 2000. 255 |
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, 2000. 179 |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
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, 1900. front matter |
politics | Edith Lyttelton | These women's pay, said the letter, was worse than the sweated wages universally condemned in pre-war days. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (15 February 1921): 6 |
politics | Edith J. Simcox | Soon after Paterson's death, 1 December 1886, Clementina Black
took over for them as acting secretary. Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974. 109 |