Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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's final volume of poems appeared posthumously under the title A London Plane-Tree, dedicated to Clementina Black
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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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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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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)...
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.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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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...
20 October 1909: The Trade Boards Act was passed—a success...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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.
