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Bedford College
British social statistics
buss
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Charles Booth
Clara's Diary
Clara’s Diary
Coleridge Road
collegiate
Collett Family
Conferring
Cos
Crouch End
Economic Journal
Eduard Bertz
educated
Educated Working Woman
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feminist economic history
gender and economics
george
George Gissing
gissing
Gissing's Death
Gissing's Life
Gissing’s Death
Gissing’s Life
Held
Kentish Town
labour market inequality
london
miss
Miss Buss
Mornington Crescent
NLCS
north
North London Collegiate School
Owens College
South Place Chapel
St Leonards
Toynbee Hall
Victorian social reform
woman
women's employment policy research
women's labour history
working
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780713002416
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This absorbing account of the life and work of Clara Collet, a leading economist, statistician and champion of women's employment, is 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, particularly with Eleanor Marx, and with Beatrice Webb. Her enduring friendship with the cult Victorian author George Gissing deeply influenced his writing. Her working relationships with Charles Booth, Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill are also celebrated
