I'm a little bit late on this one, but on normblog a late Jane is much better than a hole where her face should be. Does Jane Austen deserve a place on our £10 notes? John Mullan thinks so 'given her own remorseless attention to the power of money in people's lives'. I would like to concur. Think only of this exchange from Pride and Prejudice, when Lizzy Bennet is questioned by her sister Jane:
"My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."
A worthy occupant of the tenner, no question about it.