Clara Collet
Clara Elizabeth Collet (born September 10, 1860 in London , † August 3, 1948 in Sidmouth ) was a British left-liberal social reformer who was involved in important improvements in the pay of women workers and their working conditions at the beginning of the 20th century. She was one of the first British women to achieve a high position in civil service.
Life
The daughter of the Unitarian music teacher, journalist and choir director Collet Dobson Collet . She grew up in London, where she also graduated from University College . She worked as a teacher, initially (until 1885) in Exeter . In 1892 she became an assistant to the Royal Commission on Labor . She contributed a chapter on women's labor to Charles Booth's seminal study Life and Labor of the People of London from 1889-91. Since she herself lived in London's East End slum , it also included her observations about the lot of prostitutes . It was the time when the infamous (never caught) Jack the Ripper murdered at least five prostitutes.
Collet made friends with his daughter Eleanor through her parents, who were in contact with Karl Marx . She was also friends with Beatrice Webb . Around 1900 she met the writer George Robert Gissing , with whom a friendship, possibly a love affair, also developed. After his untimely death (1903), Collet took care of Gissing's children and his officially insane wife. A dispute arose between Collet and the writer HG Wells over his preface to Gissing's posthumously published, unfinished novel Veranilda .
Collet was now an official on the London Bord of Trade , a forerunner of the Department of Labor and Industry. In this position she helped initiate some social reforms, including women's pensions. She published in prestigious journals and worked with politicians such as David Lloyd George , Ramsay MacDonald , William Beveridge , Winston Churchill . She was also appointed to the Royal Statistical Society .
Collet left valuable journals that are kept in the Warwick University Modern Records Office .
One of Collet's brothers was the high colonial official Wilfred Collet .
Entry in Jenny Marx's Confession book
Like her brother Wilfred Collet and her sister Caroline Mary Collet, Clara signed her friend Jenny Caroline Marx's confession album .
| question | answer |
|---|---|
| Your favorite virtue (Your favorite virtue) | Obedience (obedience) |
| Property in men (quality in man) | |
| in women (woman) | Sincerity (truth) |
| Your main feature (Your chief characteristic) | Willful ( self-will ) |
| Your conception of happiness (Your Idea of happiness) | A lot of books (Plenty of books) |
| from misery | Holiday alone (Holidays with non [e]) |
| Your favorite activity (Your favorite occupation) | Read, talk, castles (Reading, talking, and castle) |
| The vice that you will excuse most (The vice you excuse most) | all my own |
| The vice that you despise most (Vice you detest most) | deceive (Cheating) |
| Person from history (character in history) | |
| you most admire (you admire most) | Duguesclin |
| You despise the most (you detest most) | Mary Stuart |
| Favorite poet (Favorite poets) | EA Poe |
| Writers (Prose writer) | ( Yonge Ewing Dickens ) |
| Hero (Hero) | ( Lance Underwood ) |
| Hero (heroine) | (Heaps) |
| Flower (Flower) | Rose (Roses) |
| Color (Color) | Scarlet (scarlet) |
| Court (dish) | Chicken and peas (Chicken and peas) |
| Name (names) | (Margaret Guy) |
| Your present state of mind | not as usual ( Not the usual one ) |
| - Maxim (Maxim) | CV |
| Clara E Collet |
Works
- The economic position of educated working women. A discourse delivered at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, EC, on February 2nd, 1890 . London 1890 (= South Place ethical soc. 25)
- Morale Tales . In: International Journal of Ethics . April 1, 1891, pp. 370-385. Digitized Internet Archive
- Reports of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor on working women, 1870-1889 . In: The Economic Journal . The journal of the Royal Economic Society . Oxford 1891, pp. 398-405. ISSN 1468-0297
- Women's work in Leeds . In: The economic journal. The journal of the Royal Economic Society . Oxford 1891, pp. 460-473. ISSN 1468-0297
- Report by Miss Collet on the statistics of employment of women and girls . Printed for HM Stationery off., By Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1894. Digitized
- Review: Family budgets. Being the income and expenses of twenty-eight British households, 1891-1894 . London 1896. In: The economic journal. The journal of the Royal Economic Society . Oxford 1896, pp. 570-573. ISSN 1468-0297
- Report by Miss Collet, on the money wages of indoor domestic servants . Presented to Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Printed for HM Stationery off., Darling & Son, London 1899.
- Educated Working Women: Essays on the Economic Position of Women Workers in the Middle Classes . PS King, London 1902. Digitized
- Some recollections of Charles Booth . In: Social Service Review . University of Chicago, Chicago 1925.
- The Private Letter Books of Joseph Collet . Ed. with an introd. and notes by H [enry] H [erbert] Dodwell, and an app. by Clara E. Collet. Longmans, Green 1933.
- Clara E. Collet, John Maynard Keynes : Herbert Somerton Foxwell . June 17, 1849 - August 3, 1936. In: The economic journal. The journal of the Royal Economic Society . Oxford 1936, pp. 589-619. ISSN 1468-0297
- Clara E. Collet, John Maynard Keynes: Obituary: Henry Higgs . In: The economic journal. The journal of the Royal Economic Society . Oxford 1940, pp. 546-561. ISSN 1468-0297
literature
- Marian Comyn: My Recollections of Karl Marx . In: The Nineteeth Century and After . Volume 91, Jan. 1922, No. 529, pp. 161-169.
- Marian Comyn: My memories of Karl Marx . Translated and annotated by Frank T. Walker. Trier 1970. (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus issue 5)
- Clara Collet, Henry Haines Collet: The Family of Collett. Memorials relating to various branches of the family with pedigrees & accompanying biographical notes, together with miscellaneous data. Compiled & arranged . 4 volumes. London 1935. ( typescript )
- Deborah McDonald: Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman . Woburn Press, London 2004, ISBN 9780713040609 (with bibliography)
- Family Marx private. The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition . Edited by Izumi Omura, Valerij Fomičev, Rolf Hecker and Shun-ichi Kubo. With an essay by Iring Fetscher , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004118-8 , pp. 362–363.
- Clive E. Hill: A Radical in Retirement: Clara Collet, 1920-1948 , in: Women's History Review , Vol. 15, No. 5, 2006, pp. 681-700.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter D. Groenewegen, 2001 , accessed on August 26, 2011
- ↑ Deborah McDonald ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 26, 2011
- ^ Family Marx private . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, Fig. 65 and p. 363.
- ^ British Library . Humanities and Social Sciences, St Pancras Reading Rooms. Shelfmark 9907.t.30
- ↑ Partly available online , accessed on August 26, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Collet, Clara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Collet, Clara Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British social reformer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1948 |
| Place of death | Sidmouth |