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`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. (2010). `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. Retrieved from 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.

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). London: 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.

Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (2005)
Thesis
Walton, S. K. (2005). Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from 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. (2005). 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. Retrieved from 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.