![]() ![]() The banknotes will include a drawing of Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice an image of Godmersham Park, which was owned by Austen’s brother and provided inspiration for some of her work and a picture of Austen’s writing table. To the Bank’s credit, they’re not just using Austen’s image: They’re doing it properly. Hence Austen, who will bump Charles Darwin, who has appeared on 10-pound notes since 2000. When the Bank of England announced that Fry would be replaced by Winston Churchill in 2016, there were widespread protests. Florence Nightingale appeared on the 10 pound note from 1975 to 1994, but Elizabeth Fry (a prison reformer) is the only woman who currently appears on English banknotes besides the Queen. Though Austen’s selection has a political component, too. ![]() If that’s not enough to get you on money, I don’t know what is. More than any other writer in English, she has defined the structure and tone and feel of the novel for the past 200 years. There were any number of great novels written before Austen, but hers are the first that feel, for lack of a better word, modern. As popular and critically acclaimed as Austen is, she’s arguably still underrated as a novelist. This is-as almost everybody agrees-a really good idea. ![]() Follow been in the air for a few weeks now, but yesterday the Bank of England confirmed it: Beginning in 2017 it will issue 10-pound notes featuring the image of Jane Austen. ![]()
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