An interesting perspective on the ‘Jane Austen on banknotes’ story from a leading American lady blogger:

http://judgybitch.com/2013/07/25/appease-the-shrieking-feminists-and-they-will-still-piss-and-moan-jane-austen-is-the-wrong-sort-of-woman-to-grace-a-bank-note-she-liked-men-and-she-understood-economics-obviously-jane-sucks/