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It is much more fun to read the teenaged Jane Austen's "History of England" than to read yet an another article by yet another scholar talking about Jane Austin
by danielvf 5y ago
It is much more fun to read the teenaged Jane Austen's "History of England" than to read yet an another article by yet another scholar talking about Jane Austin.
It begins:
"HENRY the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399, after having prevailed on his cousin and predecessor Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, and to retire for the rest of his life to Pomfret Castle, where he happened to be murdered..."
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_and_Freindship_and_other_early_works/The_History_of_England https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_and_Freindship_and_other...
- billfruit 5y agoAlso Dickens' "A Child's History of England", surprisingly good, where he goes over most of it with a childlike glee.
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