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Prof Norma Clarke

Current post:Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing
Email:N.Clarke@kingston.ac.uk
School:Humanities
Extension:62830
Location:HH34
Profile
Norma Clarke is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University. Her research interests are currently in biography and memoir writing. She has recently completed a biography of an early 18thC Irish memoirist. This book, Queen of the Wits: a Life of Laetitia Pilkington will be published in February 2008 by Faber& Faber.

Norma Clarke teaches a popular third year module in Children's Literature which makes use of the specialist resources at nearby Roehampton Institute. Her Special Study on Jane Austen draws on her internationally recognised expertise in the field of women's writing which has produced two acclaimed books: Dr Johnson's Women and The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. She is a published author of children's fiction and brings her practical knowledge of writing and publishing fiction to all aspects of her teaching in the Creative Writing programme.

She is at present working on a family memoir.
Educational and professional qualifications
1985MA in Women's Studies, Kent
1980PGCE, Institute of Education
1970BA in English and History, Lancaster
Professional experience (post-1990)
1997 - 1998Lecturer, London Guildhall University
1990 - 1994Lecturer, City and Islington College
Teaching
Children's Literature
Jane Austen
Creative Writing
Research supervision
18thC biography and memoir
Children's Literature
Research areas
English: Biography
: 18thC Literature
: Children's Literature
Funding
AHRB: matching leave scheme, £11,400
Result: successful
Institute of Advanced Study, Bloomington, Indiana: Stipendiary Visiting Fellow, $4,000
Result: successful
Notre Dame University: travel, accommodation and honorarium to spend two days and give a lecture
Result: successful
UCLA Centre for 17th and 18thC Studies: travel and accomodation for Genealogies of Feminism conference
Result: successful
Research outputs
Jump to: Article | Book | Book Section
Number of items: 10.

Article

Clarke, Norma (2004) Generation. Generate. Critical Quarterly, 46(3), pp. 20-25. ISSN (print) 0011-1562

Clarke, Norma (2000) Soft passions and darling themes: from Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) to Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806). Women's Writing, 7(3), pp. 353-371. ISSN (print) 0969-9082

Book

Clarke, Norma (2008) Queen of the wits: a life of Laetitia Pilkington. London, U.K. : Faber and Faber. 364p. ISBN 9780571224289

Clarke, Norma (2004) The rise and fall of the woman of letters. London, UK : Pimlico. 390p. ISBN 071266467X

Clarke, Norma (2001) Dr Johnson's women. London, U.K. : Hambledon and London. 260p. ISBN 1852852542

Book Section

Clarke, Norma (2005) Anna Seward: swan, duckling or goose? In: Batchelor, Jennie and Kaplan, Cora, (eds.) British women's writing in the long eighteenth century: authorship, politics and history. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 34-47. ISBN 140394931X

Clarke, Norma (2005) Bluestocking fictions: devotional writings, didactic literature and the imperative of female improvement. In: Knott, Sarah and Taylor, Barbara, (eds.) Women, gender and enlightenment. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 460-473. ISBN 1403904936

Clarke, Norma (2004) "Wonderful world up yonder": Rousseau and the erotics of teaching and learning. In: Sorensen, David and Tarr, Roger, (eds.) The Carlyles at Home and Abroad. Ashgate. pp. 220-229. ISBN 0754603873

Clarke, Norma (2000) Anna Jameson: the idol of thousands of young ladies. In: Hilton, Mary and Hirsch, Pam, (eds.) Practical visionaries: women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930. Harlow, U.K. : Longman. pp. 69-83. ISBN 9780582404311

Clarke, Norma (1997) The cursed Barbauld Crew: women writers and writing for children in the late eighteenth century. In: Hilton, Mary , Styles, Morag and Watson, Victor, (eds.) Opening the nursery door: reading, writing, and childhood, 1600-1900. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 91-103. ISBN 9780415148986

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