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