Constance Clyde | |
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 Constance Clyde in her suffragette days | |
| Born | 1872 |
| Died | 1951 |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Occupation | writer |
Constance Jane McAdam (1872-1951), best known under her literary pseudonym Constance Clyde, was a Scottish-born New Zealand writer and suffragette. She also published under the name Clyde Wright. [1]
Born in Glasgow to Mary (née Couper) and William McAdam in 1872, Clyde came to New Zealand as a child, and was educated at Otago Girls' High School. She moved to Sydney in 1898, and wrote for the Sydney Bulletin . In an essay entitled 'The Literary Woman', she urged women to continue "to make brilliant discoveries in the realm of the emotions". [2]
In 1903, Clyde returned to the United Kingdom to pursue a London literary career. Her novel A Pagan's Love was published there in 1905: the novel raised questions of women's dependence, with the heroine considering an extra-marital relationship with a man. [3] In 1907 Clyde was imprisoned in Holloway Prison as one of the suffragettes who 'caused a disturbance' in the House of Commons. [4]
At some point, Clyde returned to New Zealand, and in 1925 co-authored a travel book with the journalist Alan Mulgan. In 1931 she was ejected from the New Zealand Parliament after protesting against the 1925 Child Welfare Act. [5] In the early 1930s she moved to Brisbane. [5] In 1935 she was imprisoned in Boggo Road Gaol after refusing to pay a fine for fortune-telling using tea-leaves. [6] She died in August 1951, and was buried in Brisbane's Hemmant Cemetery. [5]
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