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Jane Austen The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2025

Paperback

128

Light

322712

978-0-241-74730-8

0-241-74730-9

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

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During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen’s breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizabeth I is a wicked villain and most historical facts and dates are cheerfully disregarded. It is accompanied here by other riotous early pieces in which young women steal money, escape from prison, agree to marry two men at once, faint and repeatedly ‘run mad’.

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