Notwithstanding a certain amount of digital whooping and high-fives among lefty feminist journalists and writers.
And also disregarding the slightly silly premise that underpinned the campaign (did anyone seriously think that the lack of a female portrait on the obverse of the bank notes was part of a patriarchal plot to do down the sistahs?).
I am very pleased that Jane Austen is to feature on the £10 bank note.
I am more than pleased in fact - I am ecstatic (insofar as an introverted boring personality like myself can ever be said to be ecstatic).
Was there ever a more conservative role model to hold up to society?
Live within your means economics; respect for the institution of marriage; reverence for the Anglican Church; a default acceptance of landed society as the only style of life worth considering ("virtue resides in rural surroundings"); the cult of respectability; admiration for the armed forces; the ideology of "the gentleman" as the defining measure of society in relation to which all humanity is to be judged (viz Elizabeth Bennet's exchange with Lady Catherine de Bourgh).
Thank you Caroline Criado-Perez, thank you Helen Lewis, thank you, thank you, thank you Zoe Williams.
This is a victory we can all celebrate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/jane-austen-banknote-victory-young-women
And also disregarding the slightly silly premise that underpinned the campaign (did anyone seriously think that the lack of a female portrait on the obverse of the bank notes was part of a patriarchal plot to do down the sistahs?).
I am very pleased that Jane Austen is to feature on the £10 bank note.
I am more than pleased in fact - I am ecstatic (insofar as an introverted boring personality like myself can ever be said to be ecstatic).
Was there ever a more conservative role model to hold up to society?
Live within your means economics; respect for the institution of marriage; reverence for the Anglican Church; a default acceptance of landed society as the only style of life worth considering ("virtue resides in rural surroundings"); the cult of respectability; admiration for the armed forces; the ideology of "the gentleman" as the defining measure of society in relation to which all humanity is to be judged (viz Elizabeth Bennet's exchange with Lady Catherine de Bourgh).
Thank you Caroline Criado-Perez, thank you Helen Lewis, thank you, thank you, thank you Zoe Williams.
This is a victory we can all celebrate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/jane-austen-banknote-victory-young-women
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