Today let’s talk about literature. Around 50% of England’s population was still Catholic almost a hundred years after the Reformation. And though it was punishable by death or imprisonment, Catholics continued to attend private masses. But more subtle forms of protest continued among poets, playwrights, and novelists. Prior to her fame, novelist Jane Austen wrote a history of England that described Elizabeth I as a tyrant and depicted “Bloody” Mary Stuart as a victim of Protestant England for he