Jane Austen admired Mary Queen of Scots, and Cassandra made this illustration of the unfortunate queen using Jane as her model. The illustration was for a book Jane wrote called:
History of England from the Reign of Henry VI to the Death of Charles I: By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian.
For
King Henry VIII, she wrote:
Abolishing Religious
Houses and leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of
infinite use to the landscape of England in general, which probably was a
principal motive for his doing it, since otherwise why should a Man who was of
no Religion himself be at so much trouble to abolish one which had for Ages
been established in the Kingdom.
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