Jane Austen Clery E. J.
When it was announced that Jane Austen would appear on the new 10 note in 2017, the 200th anniversary of her death, there was a flurry of media excitement. Few noted that a 10 Austen banknote was…
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When it was announced that Jane Austen would appear on the new 10 note in 2017, the 200th anniversary of her death, there was a flurry of media excitement. Few noted that a 10 Austen banknote was already in existence, albeit one issued by her brother. Henry Austen had set up as a banker in 1804, and built up a small empire of country banks. But Henry went unmentioned, and for good reason--he had gone spectacularly bust in the crash of 1816, the year before Jane died.Versions of Henry appear throughout her novels, not least in the charming but unscrupulous Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park, master of the fashionable card game Speculation. In her last novels, Jane worked through her increasing doubts about the speculative mindset and the shock caused by the collapse of Henry's enterprise.Exploring the close parallels between the speculative political economy of the late
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