After Alex Sanders's death in 1988, Maxine Sanders continued as one of Alexandrian Wicca's most senior living figures, teaching, giving interviews and writing about the tradition's history and practice from a perspective few others could claim, having lived through its founding rather than joined it afterward. Her 2008 memoir, Firechild: The Life and Magic of Maxine Sanders, gave her own account of the tradition's early years, including a more measured, sometimes critical view of Alex's public mythmaking than the movement's own early publicity had offered, and it remains a primary source scholars of Wicca draw on for the period.
Into her own eighties, Maxine Sanders has remained an active presence in Alexandrian Witchcraft, continuing to teach, to be interviewed by researchers and journalists covering the tradition's history, and to contribute to new publications examining Alexandrian Wicca's origins and development. As the last of the tradition's two founders still living, she occupies a position within Alexandrian Witchcraft roughly parallel to what a founding elder occupies in any living religious movement: not a historical figure known only through others' accounts, but an active participant in how the tradition continues to understand its own history.