Editing Clara Collet (section)

== Private life ==
Her family became acquainted with [[Karl Marx]] and Clara became especially friendly with his daughter [[Eleanor Marx]].<ref>Diary of Clara Collet, Warwick University Modern Record's Office</ref> Collet was a friend of [[George Gissing]] during the last ten years of his life (they first met in July 1893),<ref>Coustillas, Pierre ed. The Collected Letters of George Gissing, vol. 1, p.xii.</ref> and she offered to act as guardian to his two sons when it became clear his second wife, Edith, would find it hard to cope financially after his death. At this time she also became engaged in a long disagreement with [[H. G. Wells]] over the foreword of Gissing's posthumously published novel ''Veranilda''.