Dr. Clare Walker Gore

Biography

Clare Walker Gore is an Assistant Professor and Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate studies in English at Selwyn College and pursued an MPhil and PhD. Clare has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College and has lectured at the Open University. Her research focuses on the life writing of female novelists in the Victorian period, including notable figures such as Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Clare is particularly interested in how women's lives and autobiographies are represented in fiction and non-fiction. Her teaching spans a variety of topics in English literature, where she supervises dissertations on topics from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Her selected publications include significant works such as 'Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel' and 'Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age.'

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