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.
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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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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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...
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...
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
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
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.
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