Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the Children. Clare first came across Eglantyne when working as a fundraiser at Save the Children in the 1990s and started her biography with the support of the charity when she left to have her first child, thereby showing far less commitment to the cause than Eglantyne who remained childless and dedicated to the fund throughout her life.

Since leaving Save the Children Clare has worked as a fundraiser for Sight Savers International and sat on the fundraising advisory board of The World Development Movement. She is currently a trustee of the national charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence. In 2006 she gained a distinction for her masters in Social and Cultural History at the University of London. The following year she won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club prize for The Woman Who Saved the Children. An enthusiastic clubber, she is now a member of The Social History Society, The Voluntary Action History Society, The Women’s History Network, The Royal Society of Literature, The Biographer’s Club, The Society of Authors, English PEN, The Fawcett Society and The National Secular Society. She is also a seasoned public speaker, giving presentations at both academic conferences and literary festivals including Edinburgh, Oxford and London.

Clare now lives in Saffron Walden, Essex, and has three daughters, and one published book. She is currently working on the first biography of an extraordinary and controversial celebrity at the turn of the nineteenth-century; a household name who was a huge influence on both popular imagination and the more rarified cultural landscape.