Editing Clara Collet (section)

== Education ==
Her [[General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches|Unitarian]] father, [[Collet Dobson Collet]], sent her to the [[North London Collegiate School]] close to where she lived, which was one of the most liberated schools for girls at that time.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} When finishing her education at the Collegiate School in 1878, she was recommended by the founder of the school, [[Frances Buss]], to work as assistant mistress at the newly founded Wyggeston Girls' School in Leicester, later to become [[Regent College, Leicester|Regent College]]. Her salary was £80 and she got herself coached by masters from the boy's grammar school in Greek and [[applied mathematics]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: Life and Labour of the People in London, Reconsidered |last= O'Day|first= Rosemary|year=1993 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn= 9781441134431 |page=83 }}</ref>

Collet also enrolled at [[University College London]] and in 1880 graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree, making her one of the first women graduates from the [[University of London]]. In October 1885 Collet moved to College Hall, on Gordon Square, and started to study for a master's degree in Moral and Political Philosophy, which included psychology and economics. While studying at [[University College London]] she took the Teacher's Diploma. In 1886 she and [[Henry Higgs]] were jointly awarded the Joseph Hume Scholarship in Political Economy. Collet was awarded an M.A. in 1887.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: Life and Labour of the People in London, Reconsidered |last= O'Day|first= Rosemary|year=1993 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn= 9781441134431 |page=84 }}</ref>