Austen and Money
Full marks to anyone who sees how appropriate it is to have Jane Austen on a bank note given her practical concern with money in all its forms in her novels. Feel free to go and educate the BBC 🙂 … Read More
18thc Women and Education
Extract from my free lecture on eighteenth-century literature, the Literature of Sensibility, women writers and readers: Women’s education was much debated throughout the century, not least in women’s novels but the generally accepted ideal was to educate women not for … Read More
Gulliver & 18thc Europeans as ‘pernicious odious vermin’!
Swift was a humanitarian, deeply concerned with the political issues of his day and practically involved in supporting the poor and fighting for change. Gulliver’s Travels, much loved by children for its fantastical figures, tells us much about the political … Read More
Eighteenth-Century England and Education
Taken from my lecture on Gulliver’s Travels. There are some good things about Lilliputian society – Gulliver is impressed by their education system because they actually educate women. The thought of educating women may not cause too many ripples in … Read More