The History of England Quotes

“Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman & famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting....Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study proceeded only from an excess of vanity for which I beleive she was always rather remarkable, is uncertain.”
― Jane Austen, The History of England

“It would be an affront to my Readers were I to suppose that they were not as well acquainted with the particulars of this King's reign as I am myself. It will therefore be saving them the task of reading again what they have read before & myself the trouble of writing what I do not perfectly recollect, by giving only a sight sketch of the principal Events which marked his reign.”
― Jane Austen, The History of England