The Bank of England has released a new £10 note featuring Jane Austen, but the image used is based on a flattering portrait commissioned after her death, rather than the only known likeness created during her lifetime. The note has also been criticised for featuring a quote from a character who has no interest in […]
Jane Austen was a British novelist in the early 19th century whose work was ignored for much of the century but later established as important literature. She wrote six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, and lived a short life. Her work was initially written to entertain her family, and she received […]
