CLAIRE BROCK is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published articles in
History Workshop Journal,
Women's Writing and
Studies in Romanticism and is the author of a monograph on the career of the astronomer Caroline Herschel. She is currently working on a book about women and the physical sciences from Caroline Herschel to Mary Somerville and was the recipient of the British Society for the History of Science's 2004 Singer Prize for an article on Mary Somerville.