pseudo-histories

Updated: May 6, 2025

These pseudo-histories are alluded to by Arthur Wilson as "monstrous satires against the king's own person, that haunted both court and country," when, in the wantonness of the times, "every little miscarriage, exuberantly branched, so that evil report did often perch on them."

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions