Jane Austen's History of England

Mansfield Park (1999) is my favorite Jane Austen movie.

And I just learned that the History of England presented in this movie as written by the character Fanny is actually a real book that Jane wrote when she was just 16!






Here is the book. I'd love to read it; the quotes from her history in the movie are hilarious.










The bit I saw in the paper was a review of this book, which has both Austen's and Charles Dickens' versions of the history of England.