But recall that busy Jane Austen was neither happy nor producing memorable work, while unburdened Jane Austen, writing contently at quiet Chawton Cottage, transformed English literature.
The Bank of England has said that the early 19th century novelist Jane Austen will become the face of the new 10-pound note following criticism that women are underrepresented on British bank notes.
In " Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen did not have to explain to the 19th-century reader what Mr Bingley's " four or five thousand a year" meant, or why it excited Mrs Bennet.
At her middle-class core, Hallett writes, she wanted " a man who possessed charm and animal force as well as cash" -the perennial dream espoused most memorably in the fiction of Jane Austen.
So people like Galileo and Isaac Newton and Jane Austen, these people that we wouldn't traditionally think of as knowledge workers in the modern era, but they were the knowledge workers from back in the day.