Jane Hume Clapperton

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Standard Name: Clapperton, Jane Hume
Birth Name: Jane Hume Clapperton
Jane Hume Clapperton wrote several works of social theory in the late nineteenth century that combined her feminist ethos with her concern for the social problems facing contemporary England. She advanced a philosophy of social reform that was based on the principles of evolutionary theory and drew substantially on the theory of evolutionary eugenics, yet maintained a radical critique of contemporary sexual relations and advanced the principles of communal living and municipal socialism. In addition to the two lengthy books of social theory for which she is best known, she wrote at least two pamphlets and published occasional articles in mainstream and feminist journals. She also penned a utopiannovel in which her theories of communal living are put into fictional practice.JHC was a spirited defender of the suffrage cause and regarded education—particularly sex education—as pivotal to the political, economic, and legal advancement of women.
Title page of Jane Hume Clapperton's last book, "Visions of the Future. Based on the Application of Ethical Principles", 1904, with her name, mention of earlier titles, a quotation from Emerson  ("Hitch your wagon to a star"), and the publisher's colophon.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...
Literary responses Constance Naden
Jane Hume Clapperton reviewed this book for The Women's Penny Paper.

Timeline

July 1889
Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward 's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.