11 Facts About Clementina Anstruther-Thomson

Clementina "Kit" Caroline Anstruther-Thomson was a Scottish author and art theorist.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was known for writing and lecturing on experimental aesthetics during the Victorian era.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson's grandfather, John Anstruther-Thomson, was a career officer in the British Territorial Army.

In one of the lectures titled "What Patterns Do to Us" given by Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, she encouraged the audience to engage with a patterned vase and "feel its effect on their bodies".

Contemporary writers have described Clementina Anstruther-Thomson as having the physique that resembles the ideals from ancient Greek sculpture, and Lee frequently described her obsession with Clementina Anstruther-Thomson's body in her writings.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson first met Vernon Lee in 1888, and for the next twelve years the two women openly lived together, as "lovers, friends, and co-authors".

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was in a relationship with the Welsh author and Chief Commissioner for Girl Guides in Wales, Hon.

Later in her life, Clementina Anstruther-Thomson worked closely with the Girl Guides Association.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was both an organiser and trainer, and held the position of County Commissioner until her death.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was buried with her family in Kilconquhar Parish Churchyard, Kilconquhar.

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was a paid-up member of the West London Ethical Society, a predecessor group of Humanists UK, which later recalled her contributions as one of its "heroines of freethought".