Clara Collet

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Clara Collet was pivotal in effecting many reforms which greatly improved working conditions and pay for women during the early part of the twentieth century. Perhaps the most important thing that she did for posterity was her fastidious and fascinating collection of statistical and descriptive evidence of life for working women and the underprivileged in London and elsewhere in England. Her Unitarian father sent her to the North London Collegiate School London close to where she lived which was one of the most liberated schools for girls at that time. On leaving school she worked as a school mistress at Wyggeston Girl's School in Leicester. This was later to become Regent's College. However, she did not find this work fulfilling enough and after seven years she left to return to London and commence a Master's degree at University College London