The bookplate THE Jane Austen Literacy Foundation (JALitF) has commissioned a brand-new silhouette of her by the celebrity silhouettist Charles Burns. Based on forensically accurate wax work reconstruction, the piece will be used to commemorate the 204th anniversary of the writer’s death (July 18). Jane Austen, who was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1917, has many connections to Hampshire, the county she was born in. The silhouette is to be revealed as a collectable bookplate, with all proceeds going towards JALitF’s charitable projects to improve literacy rates around the world. Charles Burns is a renowned artist, who, in his thirty-year-long career, has cut portraits of some of the most prominent figures of our time – from The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Neil Armstrong; Nelson Mandela to Jeremy Clarkson; Bill Clinton to Gary Lineker.