Caroline Criado-Perez on Jane Austen
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In 2013, Caroline Criado-Perez successfully campaigned for a woman to be featured on a banknote.
The Bank of England chose Jane Austen.
Caroline joins Matthew Parris and Dr Paula Byrne, author of three books about the novelist, to challenge some of the myths which surround the life of one of history's most famous writers.
Matthew discovers how Jane Austen's teenage writings shocked and entertained her family and learns about her grit and determination to be published.
He finds out whether there was ever a Mr Darcy in the author's real life and hears why Caroline thinks Austen might just be the Georgians' answer to Fleabag.
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.
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| 0:35.0 | A young woman sits down on a soft green verge shaded by a tree. |
| 0:41.0 | She stares into the big white empty space beyond her. She's dressed in a blue |
| 0:46.6 | billowing dress and wears a snug blue bonnet. Its ribbons are untied and they blow in the |
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| 1:02.0 | The picture I describe is from a watercolor painted in 1804. |
| 1:07.0 | The artist's name was Cassandra, the subject, her sister, Jane. |
| 1:13.2 | Jane Austin. |
| 1:14.7 | Say the name Jane Austin and what springs to mind. |
| 1:17.7 | Lace bonnets, dewsodden, frilly shirts, all rather prim and proper. |
| 1:23.0 | Well here to help me find out who the enigmatic figure in the picture really was is the writer |
| 1:29.0 | and campaigner who indirectly got Austin onto the new 10 pound note, Caroline Criado Perries. |
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