Thomas, an Elizabethan chronicle, wrote of him: "The truth is that he wath had a great many wives, and with some of them has had a6 ill-luck as any other poor man; and I hall plainly tell you, from one ne, how the matters have passed. Not many people since then have een able "plainly" to tell the story.
poor Henry, Mr. Walter Jerrold the Intest to attempt the task "Henry VIII. and His Wive which Messrs. Hutchinson publish this autumn, The book illustrated by Miss Kitty Shannon, Jane unfinished tale, "Lady Susan, exists in an auto: uvaph fair copy in the pos: jon of che arl_ of Rosebery, by whose!
mission it has just been reprint-by the Clarendon Press (73 6d). The story was originally published ix 1871, when Lady Knatehbull, to shorn her aunt, Cassandra Austen, Kad given the manuscript, allowed ames Edward Austen-Leigh to nelude it with "The Watsons" and cher fragments in an appendix to the second edition of his memoir Jane Austen. As the interested ere aware, "Lady Susai the form favoured by Richardson, it is, in letters, and presents an impressive picture of cold, mer selfish woman. The jen on paper bearing 1805, so that the carly ceropied' Jane Austen's at-
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