Clara Collet 1860-1948 : an educated working woman / Deborah McDonald.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-242) and index.

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Part Part I Childhood 1860-78 -- chapter 1 Of Humble Origins -- chapter 2 Education and Revolution 1873-78 -- chapter 3 Dogberrys and Marxs 1873-78 -- part Part II Life in Leicester 1878-85 -- chapter 1 The School Mistress--A Pleasant Life -- chapter 2 Relationships, Traumas and Celebrities -- part Part III The East End, Poverty and Investigation 1885-93 -- chapter 1 Poverty in the East End and the Charity Organisation Society -- chapter 2 Jack the Ripper and Charles Booth -- chapter 3 The Interim Years 1890-93 -- part Part IV A New Way of Life 1893-1910 -- chapter 1 The Civil Service--A Suitable Career for a Woman? -- chapter 2 George Gissing--'Born in Exile' -- chapter 3 George and Clara--An Intimate Friendship? -- chapter 4 Aftermath -- part Part V An Educated Working Woman and Beyond 1903-48 -- chapter 1 A Successful Life -- chapter 2 The Final Chapter.

This absorbing account of the life and work of Clara Collet, a leading economist, statistician and champion of women's employment, is also the first biography of this remarkable woman and reveals through Collet's diaries her fascinating personal life. An early female university graduate (1880), then teacher, she campaigned for the secondary education provision of girls at a time when it was negligible. Her other major contribution was in raising the status of working-class women, becoming a Commissioner for the Royal Commission on Labour (1892). She was close to the family of Karl Marx, partic.

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