Clara Linklater Thomson

Clara Linklater Thomson (1867[1][2] – 26 November 1934)[3] was a British writer, editor,[4] and educator, who wrote the first full biography of Samuel Richardson.

[10] It has since been written that Thomson and Dobson inaugurated "a century of scholarship that would reassert Richardson’s importance by correcting and enriching the biographical and bibliographical record and giving his works the close critical attention they demand".

[10] Scholar Thomas Lockwood has written that Thomson "brought Richardson back into view as a major novelist at a time when he was no longer being read".

On the publication of The Junior Temple Reader, a collection of folk and fairy tales, children's poetry, rhymes, and animal stories edited by Thomson and E. E. Speight, The Educational Times wrote:This is an excellent book in every way...

Nothing could be better calculated to nurse children into a love of the best kind of reading and to cultivate in them the discriminating taste and sense of beauty which are to be found in an unspoiled child but which are often unaroused, and often overlaid.