By Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, was appointed governor of the Bank of England in July 2013. His annual salary is said to be around £624,000 ($990,000). His contract term is the customary eight years, but he’s said he’ll serve no more than five. One of his first acts as governor was to capitulate to Caroline Criado-Perez’s silly campaign to retain women on British banknotes, and in 2017 the wildly overrated authoress Jane Austen will appear on £10 notes. Our blog piece on the matter is here. Janet Bloomfield’s piece is here.
Some lines written by, and about, Jane Austen:
Some lines written by, and about, Jane Austen:
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. (Letter, 11 December 1815. ‘Jane Austen’s Letters’ – 1952)
One of Edward’s Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading. (‘The History of England’ – 1791)
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can. (‘Mansfield Park’ – 1814)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (‘Pride and Prejudice’ – 1813)
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! (Letter to Cassandra Austen, 31 May 1811, after the Battle of Albuera, 16 May 1811. ‘Jane Austen’s Letters’ – 1952)