Despite arguments that young children have enjoyed Jane Eyre for 150 years, the Victorians were much more concerned about the novel’s influence than universities are today.
- Senior Lecturer in English Literature, York St John University
Royal satire has softened over the last 300 years, but audiences are more sensitive to barbs against the institution.
Satire can skewer a pompous or corrupt politician. But history shows it can also popularise its targets.
Spoof Twitter accounts carry on a grand tradition of satire that has its roots in the 18th century.
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
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