Sally Ledger (14 December 1961 – 21 January 2009) was a British academic, who was a Professor of Victorian literature and made major contributions to the fields of nineteenth-century women’s writing, literary feminism, and the study of Charles Dickens.
[1] She completed her graduate studies at the University of Oxford, where she worked on the novels of Mark Rutherford under the supervision of Terry Eagleton at Wadham College.
She also wrote a study of Henrik Ibsen for Northcote House's 'Writers and Their Work' series (1999), and co-edited a series of volumes: Political Gender: Texts and Contexts (Routledge, 1994), Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2000) and the posthumously published Charles Dickens in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
[5] From 2005 to 2009, she was an integral part of the Dickens Project conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz[6] and was planning a book on the origins of Victorian sentimentality at the time of her death.
[1] The British Association of Victorian Studies inaugurated the Sally Ledger Memorial Bursary fund for postgraduate students in her honour.