Jane Austen copied The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st into Volume the Second, one of three small quarto notebooks which held her juvenilia or teenage writings. Written above the table of contents are the words “Ex dono mei Patris” (Austen, Teenage Writings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 120), suggesting not only some knowledge of Latin but the literariness of her project. The History occupies 34 pages and contains 13 watercolor portrait medallions by her sister, Cassandra Elizabeth Austen. The date at the end of The History is “Saturday Nov. 26th 1791,” suggesting that at the time of composition Jane would have been just shy of 16, Cassandra almost 19. In this collaborative text, Austen shifts readerly interest from history to the historian, replaces claims to historical objectivity with her own partisan authority, and writes a history that includes women, especially Mary, Queen of Scots, the unannounced focus of her history.