Author: Clare Stainthorp

Clare Stainthorp is a researcher and writer interested in nineteenth-century poetry, the history of atheism, and the intersections of literature and science. Her first book, Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet, was published in 2019 and her work has also appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Journal of Victorian Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham and now works at University College London.

Seeing Science in the Stars: Constance Naden’s sonnets and the night sky

  Clare Stainthorp

When nineteenth-century scientist, philosopher and poet, Constance Naden, contemplated the night sky, she saw a universe full of vitality. Here, Clare Stainthorp, reflects on Naden’s sonnets and the starry cosmos that inspired them.

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