ABSTRACT
During the years that Clara enjoyed her friendship with Gissing and the tumultuous aftermath, she was at the same time furthering her career. She had been employed in the newly formed Labour Department. The head of this department or ‘“Commissioner for Labour” had under him three Labour Correspondents, one of whom was Miss Collet, who was to be specially concerned with women’s industrial relations’.1 A new monthly paper was founded with the aim of publishing the statistical facts thus discovered. This was the Labour Gazette, to which Clara was a contributor, albeit often anonymously. Her work was also discussed within its pages. The scope of women’s work was expanding during this period of rapid social change and quite soon Clara was allocated her own assistant investigator.
