Jane Clapperton

Jane Hume Clapperton (22 September 1832 – 30 September 1914) was a British philosopher, birth control pioneer, socialist,[1] social reformer and suffragist.[2]

Jane Clapperton
Born22 September 1832
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died30 September 1914(1914-09-30) (aged 82)

Life and emerging philosophy

Her father was Alexander Clapperton (d. 1849) and mother Anne Clapperton , née Hume (d. 1872). She had eleven siblings. Her father was a Liberal minded business man who had his children home educated, although Jane was sent to an English boarding school when she was 12 years old due to her frail health.[3] On returning home, she did charitable work whilst remaining a spinster at home with her mother after her father died and siblings married, and then became an active suffragist when she joined the Edinburgh Women's Suffrage Society in 1871, subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907 and became a member of the Women's Freedom League in 1908.[4]

Her niece was the leading suffragette Lettice Floyd, known for her openly queer relationship with fellow suffragette Annie Williams. Clapperton's writing was on a philosophy of evolution of humanity and its happiness being related to ethical behaviour which she associated with full sexual freedom, and equality for women - in the home, the workplace and wider society and she advocated social inclusion and poverty eradication.[3]

Image taken from 'Margaret Dunmore: or, a Socialist home' by Jane Hume Clapperton

More specifically, Clapperton wrote that through controlling and differentiating the thoughts, feelings and senses people gain self knowledge and self disciple to meet the community's needs.[5]

The Vision of the Future based on the Application of Ethical Principles

Publications
  • Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness (1885)
  • Margaret Dunsmore: or a socialist home (1888)
  • A vision of the future : based on the application of ethical principles (1904)

References
  1. Ledger, Sally (1997). he New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle. Manchester University Press. pp. 49–57.
  2. Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rosemary J.; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Sian (2018). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Ewan, Elizabeth. Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474436298. OCLC 1057237368.
  3. Otter, S. M. den (2004). "Clapperton, Jane Hume (1832–1914), philosopher and social reformer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". www.oxforddnb.com. 1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55282. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. Elizabeth., Crawford (2003). The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide, 1866-1928. Taylor & Francis e-Library. ISBN 978-0203031094. OCLC 252889006.
  5. Parkins, Wendy (October 2011). "Domesticating Socialism and the Senses in Jane Hume Clapperton's Margaret Dunmore: Or, A Socialist Home". Victoriographies. 1 (2): 261–286. doi:10.3366/vic.2011.0032. ISSN 2044-2416.
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