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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture (2013)
Book
(2013). V. Sanders, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 3 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 3 Volume 14: Essays on European Literature and Culture.

Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess (2013)
Thesis
Pearce, J. (2013). Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from 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.