I'm reading this book at the moment, a fictional account of Cassandra Austen, it's very good. However the impetus for today's post was £10. I'd just reached the point in the book where Jane Austen is feeling dejected. She'd received £10 for her novel Susan, but the publisher has thus far failed to publish it. Jane's father had recently passed away and in chased financial states Jane felt low and worthless. Cassandra tried to console her. I'd put the book down before realising two ten pound notes, depicting Jane herself were next to it. I wonder what Jane may have made of this? Not only that her image adorned notes of the Realm, but those two £10 notes were Julie's from an hour gardening (before being stung 10 times by a wasp). In Jane's day £10 was a considerable amount of money. Jane may have reached thirty and feeling as though she'd failed in life, but two hundred years later, she is loved and revered around the World.
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