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Constance Isabella Stuart Smith (1859 – 1930) was an English novelist and civil servant who published on working conditions and labour legislation.
She was born in London on 16 June 1859 to Revd. Hinton C. Smith and educated in Belgium; Germany; and King’s College, London.[1][2]
Between 1889 and 1901 she wrote nine novels.[3]
From 1913 onwards she served in several capacities as a civil servant inspecting labour conditions for women and children and in factories. She received an OBE for her work.[1] In 1926 she received a Civil Pension 'in recognition of her valuable services in the promotion and advancement of social welfare.'[4]
She published The Case for Wages Boards in 1905 and collaborated with other women social workers including Gertrude Tuckwell, who wrote her memoir.[2]
Positions held
- HM Senior Lady Inspector of Factories, 1913–21
- Joint Secretary of Women’s Employment Committee (Ministry of Reconstruction), 1917–19
- HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, 1921–25
- Technical Adviser to British Government Delegates at First Conference of International Labour Organisation, Washington, 1919, and Fifth Conference, Geneva, 1923
- Joint Hon. Secretary Committee on Wage-earning Children
- Member of Industrial Law Committee
- Four times a British Delegate to Biennial Conference of International Association for Labour Legislation[1]
Works
Fiction
- The Repentance of Paul Wentworth (1889)
- The Riddle of Lawrence Haviland (1890)[5]
- One Way of Love (1892)
- A Cumberer of the Ground (1894)[6]
- The Backslider: A Story of Today (1896)
- Prisoners of Hope (1898)
- Love Hath Wings (1899)[7]
- The Magic Word (1900)
- Corban (1901)[8]
Non-fiction
As well as numerous journal and periodical articles, she wrote:
- The Case for Wages Boards (1905)[9]
- (with Gertrude Tuckwell) The Workers’ Handbook (1908)
- (with Gertrude M. Tuckwell, Mary R. MacArthur, May Tennant, Nettie Adler, Adelaide Mary Anderson, and Clementina Black) Women in Industry from Seven Points of View (1909)
References
- ^ a b c "Smith, Constance Isabella Stuart, (died 26 March 1930), HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, 1921–25". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-217219. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
- ^ a b Tuckwell, Gertrude M. (1931). Constance Smith: A Short Memoir. Duckworth.
- ^ "Author: Constance Isabella Stuart Smith". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
- ^ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1926). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office.
- ^ Smith, Constance Isabella Stuart (1890). The Riddle of Lawrence Haviland. A Novel. R. Bentley & Son.
- ^ Smith, Constance (1894). A Cumberer of the Ground. Harper & Brothers.
- ^ Smith, Constance (1899). Love Hath Wings. Isbister.
- ^ Smith, Constance Isabella Stuart (1901). Corban.
- ^ Smith, Constance Isabella Stuart (1908). The Case for Wages Boards. National Anti-Sweating League. ISBN 978-0-7222-1867-9.