fajrdrako | History and Jane Austen... (Reply)

angevin2 had a link to Jane Austen's History of England. Now, though I love Persuasion with a passion, my general feeling about Jane Austen is that everyone else in the world loves her and her books much more than I do. This quote makes me almost come to love her:

I suppose you know all about the Wars between him & the Duke of York who was of the right side; if you do not, you had better read some other History, for I shall not be very diffuse in this, meaning by it only to vent my Spleen against, & shew my Hatred to all those people whose parties or principles do not suit with mine, & not to give information.