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King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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"King John of Jingalo" is a 1912 novel by Laurence Housman, an n English playwright, writer, and illustrator during the Victorian era. The novel was first published in Britain in 1912 under the title "John of Jingalo" and republished the same year in the United States as "King John of Jingalo." It is one of Housman's first Ruritanian novels. The author places his characters in the setting of an imagined kingdom where women also fight for equal rights and fills the story with light humor and satire, which makes the reading even more engaging.
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Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman (18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman.
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