Valerie Sanders

Standard Name: Sanders, Valerie

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Sewell
Her autobiography has received the most recent critical attention of her writings. Critic Valerie Sanders compares it with other autobiographies (by Harriet Martineau , Fanny Kemble and Margaret Oliphant ), and notes ES 's conflicted...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Valerie Kossew Pichanick wrote an account of HM 's life and work in 1980, as did Gillian Thomas , 1985. Valerie Sanders 's Reason Over Passion, 1986, was the first major study of her...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
There is no complete edition of her letters, many of which remain unpublished. Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood, edited by Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle , appeared in 1983. Valerie Sanders edited Harriet Martineau: Selected...
Reception Eliza Lynn Linton
In 1878, ELL wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
The stories are eventful as well as didactic (incidents range from natural disaster and piracy to child heroism and the death of a baby). They typically feature sudden adversity, which snatches children from a familiar...

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Sanders, Valerie. “’Absolutely an act of duty’: Choice of Profession in Autobiographies by Victorian Women”. Prose Studies, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 54-70.
Sanders, Valerie, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix F: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Canon”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 475-87.
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters. Editor Sanders, Valerie, Clarendon Press, 1990.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.