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Get to Know Clara – #17 She’s an English teacher who loves books.

Although we see that she has graduated early in the series, what her degree was in is not stated until about 9 episodes into her run, but based on interviews with Jenna, she was always intended to have had a degree in English.

While it may not have been stated explicitly, her love of literature and books is consistently shown throughout the episodes. Her room is covered in books with two shelves full of them above her bed (in closer shots you can see many of them are about travel), on her desk she has several books pulled out like she’s been reading them, and when she walks into the kitchen of the Maitland house towards the end of an episode, she picks up a book off the table like she is going to sit down and read it before getting distracted by the Tardis parked outside.

Out of all the rooms in the Tardis, she is most impressed with the Library.

She even makes reference to storytelling in her daily life. She tells the Doctor that good guys in stories don’t have zombie creatures like he is the hero of a story.

When her mind goes completely blank and the Doctor asks her where she wants to go, the single analogy that comes to mind is when someone asks her what her favorite book is. She’s dreamed of traveling all her life, she’s clutching a book of places to see, and yet, like when asked where to go, she blanks. She compares having to choose between every amazing place in the universe and choosing between all the books she’s read – she can’t even come up with a single answer.