Background
Clemence was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Clemence was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
She was the sister of A. East. Housman and Laurence Housman. Her novels included The Were-Wolf, Unknown Sea and The of Sir Aglovale De Galis. She was also a leading figure in the Suffragette movement.
She went to the South London School of Technical Art in 1883 where she learned, among other things, wood engraving.
She worked for a time as an engraver for illustrated papers such as The Graphic. She made banners for the suffrage movement between 1908 and 1914.
She was arrested on 30 September 1911 for non-payment of taxes and she was sent to Holloway Prison, but she was released after just one week following protests and demonstrations by her supporters. After World War I, they lived in a cottage in the village of Ashley in Hampshire, and then, in 1924, moved to Street, Somerset.
In 1910 she became a member of the committee of the Women"s Tax Resistance League.