 Jane Austen, left, loathed the Prince Regent, who later became George IV, but he might have been one of her first readers. CreditFrom left: Hulton Archive via, Getty Images; Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images
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Arnie Perlstein
7/27/2018 05:29:03 pm
By coincidence, I recently wrote a blog post (and a followup) responding to those articles, which you can access here!: 10/17/2019 03:34:52 pm
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