Well, not me, certainly. I'm not the literary type, as you know; I've never read A Tale of Two Cities*, and if you had asked me what The Scarlet Pimpernel was even about before your comment, I would not have been able to tell you it had anything to do with the French Revolution.
* I was turned off Dickens forever by being forced to read and write essays on Great Expectations, unaided, at the age of *13*.
My first exposure to the French Revolution in passing must have been the discussions of it in The Little Princess, which I read when I was 7, and my first dedicated historical fiction intro to it was Jean Plaidy's Flaunting, Extravagant Queen, sometime in early high school.
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Date: 2023-08-01 01:56 am (UTC)* I was turned off Dickens forever by being forced to read and write essays on Great Expectations, unaided, at the age of *13*.
My first exposure to the French Revolution in passing must have been the discussions of it in The Little Princess, which I read when I was 7, and my first dedicated historical fiction intro to it was Jean Plaidy's Flaunting, Extravagant Queen, sometime in early high school.