Clementia Taylor

On her first return from abroad to set up house with Lewes, GE had to undertake damage control in managing her friendships. She was anxious about the probable reaction of old friends like the Brays...

Seeking a purpose in life, she had met her lifelong friend Clementia or Mentia Taylor and other social activists in London. The arrangement with Carpenter was facilitated by her supporter Lady Byron , who...

FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor

When the Leweses celebrated their move to The Priory and their son Charlie's promotion and twenty-first birthday with a party, Clementia Taylor and one or two other women attended, but Bessie Rayner Parkes did not...

GE was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...

Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Jane Cobden , William Lloyd Garrison , Josephine Butler , and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor (convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee formed in London), among others.

Isa Craig , Emily Davies , Bessie Parkes , Jessie Boucherett , and Elizabeth Garrett were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor joined it too.

BLSB did not join this new committee, because she disagreed with its policy of excluding male members, and disapproved of the more radical approach of the chair, Clementia Taylor .