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Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell (2015)
Thesis
Huang, P.-C. S. Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218026

This thesis argues that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell employ textually important objects to explore women’s demeaning status in patriarchal societies and their construction of agency in such circumstances. In their novels, both Austen and Gaskell... Read More about Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture (2013)
Book
(2013). V. Sanders, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513247

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture.

Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess (2013)
Thesis
Pearce, J. Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216116

Life in Transit: Travel Narratives of the British Governess argues that on entering the profession of governessing, women embarked on a new, more mobile existence of travel and relocation on a local and global scale. At a time when gentlewomen rarely... Read More about Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess.

"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97 (2012)
Book
(2012). V. Sanders, J. Shattock, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513186

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97.

Records of Girlhood, Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods (2012)
Book
Sanders, V. (2012). Records of Girlhood, Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods. Routledge

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodg... Read More about Records of Girlhood, Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods.

Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction (2012)
Thesis
Hatter, J. E. Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220635

In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Most of the critical output, however, relates to Braddon’s sensation novels Lady Audley’s Secret (1861) and Aurora Floyd (1862) (with... Read More about Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886 (2011)
Book
(2011). V. Sanders (Ed.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886. Routledge

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886.

`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century (2010)
Thesis
Snelling, S. L. `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211481

This thesis is a text-based study of storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, providing close readings of three texts from each of these periods. Books in Part One are drawn from the canon of class... Read More about `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century.

'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century (2010)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. R. (2010). 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 43(1), 49-67

This article presents work as the possible site of a generational conflict over the definition of masculinity between parents and children, focusing on the father and son dynamic. It tackles cases of idle sons, or educated young men who cannot establ... Read More about 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century.

Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations (2009)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2009). Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations. In L. Delap, B. Griffin, & A. Wills (Eds.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250796

In Chapter 5 of Dickens’ Dombey and Son (1848), Mr Dombey, who has longed all his married life for a son to inherit the family business, finally acquires one — at the cost of his exhausted wife — and is planning little Paul’s christening ceremony. Hi... Read More about Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations.

Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston (2008)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2008). Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston. The Modern language review, 103(3), 835-838. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467939

The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer (2006)
Journal Article
Heilmann, A., & Sanders, V. (2006). The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer. Women's studies international forum, 29(3), 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2006.04.008

Anti-feminist journalists and women writers had a crucial role in contributing to the feminist debate in Victorian Britain. As an organized political movement Victorian anti-feminism significantly post-dated the rise of anti-feminist literature in th... Read More about The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer.

'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies (2006)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2006). 'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies. In D. Amigoni (Ed.), Life Writing and Victorian Culture (215-231). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315250502

The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especiall... Read More about 'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries (2005)
Book
Sanders, V., Christianson, A., Grimble, S., Mcintosh, S. A., & Pite, R. (2005). Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513001

Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction... Read More about Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries.

Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (2005)
Thesis
Walton, S. K. Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215881

This thesis studies some of the writings of Charlotte Yonge as a route into the cultural concepts of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth century. In her many best-selling publications, both fiction and non-fiction, together with her editorial control o... Read More about Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities..

Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy (2005)
Thesis
Ingham, A. M. 1. Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220311

[From the introduction]:
This thesis will explore the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorise and empower women. It will critically investigate how Hannah... Read More about Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy.