THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND BY A PARTIAL PREJUDICED AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN

During his reign Lord Cobham was burnt alive but I forget what for 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’.