The Observer view on Jane Austen’s immortality | Observer editorial
Two centuries after her death, her influence is still felt
by Observer editorial
Jul 22, 2017
1 minute
Jane Austen, who died 200 years ago last Tuesday, has been enjoying an impressively vigorous afterlife. First, as an icon of her gender, there has been her controversial debut on the new £10 note, an appearance that sent some indignant Jane-ites into “Airbrushed”, they cried; “inauthentic”, they snorted.
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