Bending, L. (2022) "Outside / But inside": Eliza Keary, Little Seal-Skin, and the negotiation of space. Women's Writing, 29 (3). pp. 346-362. ISSN 1747-5848 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2021.1948294

Bending, L. (2018) 'The sad language of pain': S. Weir Mitchell, the American Civil War, and interpreting physical suffering. In: Gonzalez-Polledo, E. J. and Tarr, J. (eds.) Painscapes: framing pain communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 25-40. ISBN 9781349952717

Bending, L. (2010) Self-presentation and instability in Harriet Martineau's autobiography. In: Dzelzainis, E. and Kaplan, C. (eds.) Harriet Martineau: authorship, society and empire. Manchester University Press, UK, pp. 63-73. ISBN 9780719081330

Bending, L. (2009) 'Fishing in a Strange Element': Harriet Martineau and the Visible World. In: Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century. Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, 9. Peter Lang, Oxford. ISBN 97830391184-3

Bending, L. (2008) Falling over the banister: Harriet Martineau and the uneasy escape from the private. In: Gómez Reus, T. and Usandizaga, A. (eds.) Inside Out: women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space. Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature (4). Rodopi, pp. 35-46. ISBN 9789042024410

Bending, L. (2006) Approximation, suggestion, and analogy: translating pain into language. Yearbook of English Studies, 36 (1). pp. 131-137. ISSN 2222-4289 (special issue 'Translation')

Bending, L. (2004) Pain and religion in the Victorian era. In: Moscoso, J. (ed.) Pain: passion, compassion, sensibility. Wellcome Trust, London. ISBN 1841290505

Bending, L. (2000) The representation of bodily pain in late nineteenth-century English culture. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp309. ISBN 9780198187172