King John of Jingalo

"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.