Let's start with a literary figure who has had more influence on British culture than she would ever have known during her relatively short life.
These were Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after she died - and they are loved all over the world.
While she was alive, she actually published her books anonymously, so nobody knew her as a writer. It is widely accepted that she never got the credit she deserved until after her death.
Now, just over 200 years since she died, millions of people carry Jane around in their pockets every single day. That's because her face is now on the new £10 note as a way of marking just what an enormous impact her work still has today.
