Clare Stainthorp is an honorary fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Her Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2021-24) focused on the nineteenth-century freethought movement and their periodicals, but she has a wider interest in literary responses to esoteric spiritualities and intellectual history.

She is the author of Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet (2019) and co-editor (with Naomi Hetherington) of Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society: Disbelief and New Beliefs (2020). Her research has appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Victorian Culture, Media History, and Victorian Periodicals Review.

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