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By Dr Rebecca Bullard, Department of English Literature, University Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Austen would, I think, have been delighted to feature on the new \u00a310 note. Many of her novels are about the impact of money \u2013 and especially the lack of it \u2013 on women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

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Her first published works,\u00a0Sense and Sensibility<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Pride and Prejudice,<\/em>\u00a0feature families full of daughters struggling under a legal system that keeps all property in the hands of (sometimes distant) male relatives. The famous opening of\u00a0Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, of course, tells us that \u2018a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife\u2019. Austen\u2019s fourth novel,\u00a0Emma<\/em>, turns this observation on its head, with Emma Woodhouse declaring that, \u2018A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid!\u2019<\/p>\n

Austen never condones this kind of snobbery: Emma comes to regret her unkind behaviour towards the impoverished spinster, Miss Bates, and the protagonist of Mansfield Park<\/em>, Fanny Price, is dignified in poverty. Nonetheless, it\u2019s difficult to escape the conclusion that marrying well for Austen meant, above all, escaping the financial insecurity of a single life; love is a bonus.<\/p>\n

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Never married, Jane Austen was not shy about the fact that she \u2013 unlike any of her novels\u2019 heroines \u2013 earned a living by her pen. She took a keen interest in the publication of her novels, always believing in their commercial, as well as their literary, value. She was cross that, in 1812, her publisher would only give \u00a3110 for\u00a0Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, rather than the \u00a3150 that she had hoped for.<\/p>\n

During financial negotiations over the second edition of\u00a0Mansfield Park<\/em>, she told her niece, \u2018I am very greedy & want to make the most of it\u2019. Her letters show that Austen enjoyed spending money as well as earning it. Newly purchased clothes feature frequently in letters to her sister, Cassandra, revealing Austen\u2019s personal taste and her eye for a bargain. Money, it was clear, was a source of pleasure to Austen as well as a resource to be used prudently.<\/p>\n

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Concept image for the new \u00a310 note – Jane Austen. Courtesy of Bank of England<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you look really closely, there are actually two images of Austen on the new \u00a310 note. The larger portrait of Austen\u2019s face, which has attracted a great deal of media attention because it is perhaps not an accurate likeness of the author, shows her looking off into the distance.<\/p>\n

The image that I like best, however, has even less claim to \u2018authenticity.\u2019 Peer to the left of the main portrait, and you\u2019ll see a fainter image of a woman in Regency-style dress sitting at a twelve-sided writing table, just like the one at the Jane Austen\u2019s House Museum, fully absorbed in her work.<\/p>\n

The gravestone that Austen\u2019s family erected to her memory in Winchester Cathedral does not mention her novels at all. It\u2019s great to see that the Bank of England\u2019s newest note commemorates Austen as a professional writer, because that\u2019s how I think she would have wanted to be remembered.<\/p>\n

Listen to Dr Bullard’s interview on Jane Austen with BBC Radio Berkshire in our media round-up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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