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Lisa Climie-Somers

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Lisa Climie-Somers

Current Position: PG Research Student, Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University.

Research interests include: Victorian literature and culture; the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; women and gender; women’s suffrage: the history of diaspora.

Supervisors: Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Dr Barbara Cooke. External: Dr Nick Freeman

Thesis: Unfaithful Women

The background to this study is the development of the early Mormon movement, more formally known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the mid-19th century. In particular, the expansion of the church through mass conversion of those from the UK and wider Europe, followed by a migration programme into the US.

This area is important to investigate because it highlights women’s sexual subordination and domination by a patriarchal system, especially through plural marriage and the consequent emergence of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. It further investigates mass migration and nation-building by a persecuted minority and, by doing so, tells an important story about women’s history and American history and the relevance these have today.

The study also looks at how this particular group of migrants directly influenced popular Victorian literature.

Other Publications

Shadow Man

Parts 1 & 2: T.E. Lawrence Society Journal (2014 and 2015)

Four Seasons

UEA Non-Fiction Anthology (2014)

My Mother Said: Hidden Sussex

A new Anthology For Sussex 2019. More details at: https://writingourlegacy.org.uk/product/hidden-sussex-anthologyDepartment of English, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough LE11 3TUCorrespondence Address:37 Conqueror Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN38 8DD

Tel:+44 7979 965168

 

Conferences and Talks

T.E. Lawrence Society Conference UK: Paper on T.E. Lawrence and Vyvyan Richards. Conference due 21-22 Sep 24

Women’s History Network: Paper Pilgrim Mothersaccepted at Women and Migration Conference. Sep 2023

Lives and Afterlives Online Symposium: Reading extracts from historical fiction piece Meum et Tuum– discussing creative choices and the challenges of interpreting real lives. May 2022

Contemporary Research Group Loughborough University: Reading selected memoir. Dec 2021

Brighton’s New Writing South/Writing Our Legacy LGBTQ Event: Reading extract from a piece of historical fiction about Vyvyan Richards and T.E. Lawrence Meum et Tuum. Feb 2021

 

Funding Received

Loughborough Scholarship – Full scholarship

Santander Travel Award – Research trip to Los Angeles and Salt Lake City 2022

Loughborough Uni PGR travel awards – For UK research trips to Portsmouth, Preston,  Chorley and Liverpool

Memberships

International Daughters of Utah Pioneers

British Association of Victorian Studies

Women’s History Network

Victorian Popular Fiction Associations

Utah State Historical Society

Neurodivergent Humanities Network

The Biographers’ Club

Education and Courses

2012 – 2014 MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction (Merit), University of East Anglia

Oct 2018: New Writing South – Creative Writing Programme/Advanced Writing Programme

2018 April – July: City Lit, London – Stage Play Writing

2012: Fiction with Chris Wakling (Arvon)

2011: Flash Fiction with Sarah Salway, Tania Hershman (Arvon)

2010: Starting to Write Fiction with MavisCheek, Paul Sussman (Arvon)

2009: Joined Write Now! Writers Group

Professional Experience

Oct 2013 – 2020

Lisa Climie Management

Managing solo artists and bands and multimedia in music industry

Apr 2012 – 2014

Project Manager, Projects for People

Set up and managed counselling service and training centre

Dec 2005 – Jul 2008

Assistant Commissioning Manager, Suffolk County Council.

Involved all aspects of social care commissioning, in particular new county-wide services

Phone

+44 7860 039092

Address

37 Conqueror Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN38 8DD