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.
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
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...
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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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...