I should not die but in Jerusalem, whether or not it's in England's green and pleasant land
anomilygrace linked me to Dickens' A Child's History of England this evening, and I was enough intrigued that I thought I ought to share it with the rest of you. (I had never heard of it, because I lose at Dickens.)
"It had been foretold that he would die at Jerusalem, which certainly is not, and never was, Westminster. But, as the Abbot's room had long been called the Jerusalem chamber, people said it was all the same thing, and were quite satisfied with the prediction."
Also, dig the highly bolshy account of the 1381 Rising: of course Dickens does not call it that, but he surely would have had the term been invented back then. Wat Tyler definitely gets the last word in this version (quite literally; check out the end of the chapter on Richard II). And the rather mad chapter on Edward II, which is...well. Erm. Bits of it are weirdly frank, for a children's history written in 1850.
ETA: Here's another etext with more easily navigable chapters.
While I'm here:
Word count: 9426.
Lambard tally: Still just the one, but I've expanded on it a little.
commodorified has been too busy to work on her novel lately, and I have been too lazy to work on the diss much, and so it balances out. Or something.
"It had been foretold that he would die at Jerusalem, which certainly is not, and never was, Westminster. But, as the Abbot's room had long been called the Jerusalem chamber, people said it was all the same thing, and were quite satisfied with the prediction."
Also, dig the highly bolshy account of the 1381 Rising: of course Dickens does not call it that, but he surely would have had the term been invented back then. Wat Tyler definitely gets the last word in this version (quite literally; check out the end of the chapter on Richard II). And the rather mad chapter on Edward II, which is...well. Erm. Bits of it are weirdly frank, for a children's history written in 1850.
ETA: Here's another etext with more easily navigable chapters.
While I'm here:
Word count: 9426.
Lambard tally: Still just the one, but I've expanded on it a little.
commodorified has been too busy to work on her novel lately, and I have been too lazy to work on the diss much, and so it balances out. Or something.