Teaching
Department of Humanities
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Research
A monograph, 'Accommodating Feminism: Victorian Women's Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement'
I have also contributed as research fellow to the forthcoming Clarendon edition of Charles Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend'
Publications
Journal articles
Dredge, S. (2020). “‘Was There a Servant . . . Who Did Not Know the Whole Story before the End of the Day?’ Upside-Down Points of View in Austen”. Persuasions : the Jane Austen Journal On-Line, 40 (2). http://jasna.org/publications/persuasions-online/volume-40-no-2/dredge/
Dredge, S. (2012). NEGOTIATING “A WOMAN'S WORK”: PHILANTHROPY TO SOCIAL SCIENCE IN GASKELL'S NORTH AND SOUTH. Victorian Literature and Culture, 40 (1), 83-97. http://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150311000258
Dredge, S. (2005). Opportunism and accommodation: the English Woman's Journal and the British mid-nineteenth-century women's movement. Women's studies, 34 (2), 133-157. http://doi.org/10.1080/00497870590923935
Book chapters
Dredge, S. (2026). White hands, brown hands and the ‘invisible hand’: the economy of ‘active sympathy’ in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. In Newport, E., & Goggin, J. (Eds.) Women, Money, and Markets (1770 - 1930)Uncovering the Invisible Hands of the Economy. Boydell and Brewer
Dredge, S. (2023). “Rice puddings made without milk”: Mother Seacole reforms “home habits” in the Crimea. In Carroll, R., & Tolan, F. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism. (pp. 393-405). London: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003429951-32
Dredge, S. (2018). ‘Within View of His Own Warehouses’: Sites of Change in Pride and Prejudice and North and South. In After Austen. (pp. 43-60). Springer International Publishing: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_3
Dredge, S. (2018). “I have tried to write truthfully”: fictions of science in women’s writing of nineteenth-century political economy. In Adelman, R., & Packham, C. (Eds.) Political economy, literature & the formation of knowledge, 1720-1850. (pp. 89-118). New York: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Political-Economy-Literature--the-Formation-of-Knowledge-1720-1850/Adelman-Packham/p/book/9781138542136