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Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now (2021)
Journal Article
Hatter, J., Ifill, H., Bloom, A. B., Costantini, M., Lambert, C., Pope, C., & Sanders, V. (2021). Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now. Victorian popular fictions journal, 3(1), 4--32. https://doi.org/10.46911/tfsa1481

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary and gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishe... Read More about Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now.

Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction (2019)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2019). Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction. Yearbook of English Studies, 49, 48-66. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.49.2019.0048

Margaret Oliphant’s novels make frequent reference to the consumer culture of the period, ranging from shopping in department stores to the purchase of art works by private collectors. Both female and male shoppers feature in her novels, and the good... Read More about Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction.

Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations (2019)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2019). Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations. Journal of Victorian Culture, 24(3), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz019

In 1852, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) declared his wish to ‘put the anthropology of men of my own generation on as sound a footing as I can,’ so that they would have clear religious and moral principles with which to face the challenges ahead of them.... Read More about Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations.

'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century (2010)
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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.

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.