Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: The Emancipation of Women: Clementina Black

Description: Abstract - Born in Brighton in 1854 she began writing fiction and in 1877 her first novell was published. In 1886 as a result of her friendship with the Marx family she became a member of the Women's Trade Union League and was appointed honorary secretary. She was also involved in the formation of the Consumers' League and in 1889 helped form the Women's Trade Union Association and was a member of the Fabian Society as well as the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and in 1912 was editor of their journal The Common Cause. She died in 1922.