When she was just 16 years old, Jane Austen wrote this gleeful parody of Goldsmith, four volume history of England. Her vision is in a reverent look at the subject, usually treated with dead seriousness the monarchs from Henry the fourth to Charles the first are full of human whims and weaknesses, both in Jameses text and in her sister Cassandra‘s miniature portraits which depict the Kings and Queens of England as ordinary, and sometimes rather disreputable looking individuals. From a smoke free home

ISBN: 9781565120556