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.
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.
116-17
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
Textual Features
Beatrice Webb
BW
contributed the first essay, The Economics of Factory Legislation. The other contributors, all female, included Clementina Black
.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen, editor. Women in Industrial Life: The International Congress of Women of 1899. T. Fisher Unwin.
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
Later that year, EL
was also numbered among the women who tried to help...
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.
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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...
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
179
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.
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.
