Jane Austen On The Money Culture Pick of the day
The Jane Austen industrial complex embraces good and bad films, mugs, quilts, TV, parodies, biography, criticism, and now banknotes. To read the original novels has become something of a lost art. But when you do go back to them, as here, one thing that strikes you afresh is her obsession with money. “Austen’s fans often remark that reading the novels feels like meeting an old friend. But it also feels like meeting a financial adviser. You are constantly bombarded with figures” (3,900 words)
