Claire BrockClaire Brock is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. She is the author of two monographs, The Feminization of Fame, 1750–1830 (2006) and The Comet Sweeper (2007), and the editor of New Audiences for Science: Women, Chldren, and Labourers (2013). Brock won the British Society for the History of Science's international Singer Prize for young scholars (2005) and received a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (2012–14) for British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918. Read More Read Less