Glossary

(Many of the words listed below are not always used with the given meanings.)

abroad accent addition address addresses admirable against altogether apparent apply appointment

article assiduous attach awful

backwards beat beaufet beforehand with

the world bottom break through

out of one's house tone social asset speech, bearing; adroitness marriage proposals amazing in preparation for on the whole unconcealed, manifest busy oneself, practise engagement, note indicating destination, dispen-

sation item obsequiously attentive win the attachment of awe-inspiring

at the back try to get the better of buffet, sideboard or cupboard in a recess in pocket, having money in hand

low-lying land, valley break off

bring burst

cadet call oneself candid can dour chair chamber-horse character chief chimney-board closet collect come into complacency

complicate comprehend condition conscious constancy conversible coquelicot countenance country coze cried up cross cry-out cry up culture cut cut up

dab decent deedily

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persuade view which suddenly emerges, sudden mani­

festation, spurt of activity

younger son make an effort favourably disposed kindliness one-horse chaise, sedan chair rocking-horse reputation main part fireplace screen small room or compartment gather, form the impression accede to approval, self-approval, pleasure, satisfaction,

serenity involved comprise, include make conditions self-conscious, embarrassed permanency, regular work or duty conversational, devoted to conversation poppy-coloured expression (facial) district, part of the country friendly chat praised, exalted cross a person's mind, strike outspoken comment extol cultivation, agriculture sever connections with cut short

expert proper, respectable actively, intently

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delicate dependence deputation determinate determinateness developement direct disgust

draw (a person) in

dressing dust

earnest eclat economist endite it ensign

equal errant event evil

exhibit experimental exploring expose

fact fenced fess fine fit fix flaming

Glossary

sensitive assumption, expectation shooting-rights definite fixed views realization, disclosure address (letters) (n) dislike, distaste ( v) displease entice, inveigle

reprimand, 'telling-off' commotion

foretaste, pledge publicity, sensation good housekeeper have the matter taken up legally commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the

infantry adequate arrant, downright result, outcome unpleasant, wrong; drawback, difficulty, trouble,

harm, danger, wrong, wrongdoing, mis­chance, anything unpleasant or inconvenient

perform based on experience making excursions exhibit, (reflexive) catch the attention of the

public

act, deed defended, protected smart (dialect) smartly dressed sudden access of strong emotion secure (by engagement), become engaged; settle glowing

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floated flooded forehand part of the horse in front of the saddle forwards at the front

gaming gambling genius natural aptitude give into yield to, admit go off come to an end (cf. 'go on') greatly on a high social level griping grasping, mean

habit dress, riding-habit hack-chaise hackney-carriage hanger steep wooded slope hectic consumptive high proud, haughty, high in the social scale history story hold up (of rain) cease home searching, pointed horrid exciting fear, distasteful huswife pocket-case containing a sewing-outfit

indifferent disinterested, impartial inequality inadequacy infer imply injury damage, wrong intelligence information, news interest business or political interests irritation state of excitability

lady wife lay out for take steps to obtain, make openings for leave from opp. of 'leave to' (e.g. property) light slight lounge stroll low (in the social scale) vulgar

made (naval) promoted make up become reconciled

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material measures mischief mob morning mortifying

neighbourhood nice nicety notice nuncheon

object office offices open open on opposed to oppress over-reach overset

parlour-boarder particular particularity

parts party peculiar penetrate person personal pitching pitiful place place to plenty poking

Glossary

real, great courses of action, steps taken harm, wrong, evil crowd time of the day before dinner losing vitality, becoming depressed

local community, neighbours fastidious, over-particular scrupulosity, fastidiousness draw or pay attention to, acknowledge light refreshment about mid-day

somebody or something held dear function kitchen department (weather) mild, free from frost begin to address opposite overwhelm outdo, get the better of upset

pupil living in the home of the school principal odd, peculiar attention to detail or to something in particular,

fastidiousness, anything odd or unusual abilities, talents person concerned special, particular touch the heart physique, body physical street formed of setts mean rank, job, situation attribute plentiful pottering, meddlesome

position precise prevent prodigious purchase push put forward put up putrid put-to

qualification quiz

race rattle receipt red-gum regale relation remark rencontre representatives reprobate repulsive rest, take the ridicule rout-cakes rub

scrape

secure see for se'nnight sensible (of) sensibly set

Glossary

assertion, argument strict, puritanical precede, do something in advance of exceedingly (colloquial and affected) annual income, rent determined advance venture a remark (clothes) pack, put away characteristic of typhus fever, (throat) septic (horses) harness and attach to a vehicle

legal rights, e.g. to shoot game (n) eccentric, odd-looking object (v) make fun of, regard with amusement

family shatter box recipe teething-rash feast, delight story observe, notice meeting (of great families) heirs condemn, criticize repellent

505

(of a horse) submit to being checked or stopped reticule rich cakes made for receptions difficulty, setback

an awkward salutation in which the head is inclined as the leg is drawn backwards certain, assured look for week aware (of) with sensibility or feeling sit, sat

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set-down sheer hulk

sit down upon sly speak for stout stoutly straighten or

streighten stretch strong succeed to

take in taste tax tea-board teaze or teize temper

terrific throw off ticket ton town touch up turn off

under-hung unequal use

view

wait on want wantonness wave

Glossary

humiliating rebuff, scolding hull of an old ship specially fitted with shears for hoisting and fixing masts, etc. put up with secretive, reticent order strong (physically); firm, insistent bravely restrict

tension great occupy a space vacated by somebody else

dupe, trick, catch; include (in art) appreciation, discernment take to task, challenge tea-tray vex, try, irritate, worry; urge temperament, disposition; moderation, com-

posure alarming, terrifying loose the hounds, start the hunt visiting-card style London stimulate, spur (weather) deteriorate

having a projecting lower jaw unsteady, lacking composure benefit

prospect, expectation

visit, make a polite call on need, require excess, extravagance waive

(in the) way well-connected wild wit with a withers! worst

Glossary

aware of events (building) compact, conveniently planned very excited, rapturous, eager anything amusing and no mistake! indeed! deteriorate

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The Works of Jane Austen

Juvenilia, Early Work, and Fragments Volume the First, ed. R. W. Chapman, Oxford, 1933 Volume the Second, ed. B. C. Southam, Oxford, 1963 Volume the Third, ed. R. W. Chapman, Oxford, 1951 The above, together with Lady Susan, The Watsons (1804-5), and Sanditon ( 1817) are included in Volume VI of the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works, ed. R. W. Chapman, 1954, with further revisions by B. C. Southam, 1969. This volume contains some notes, and indexes for characters in Catharine and the three works mentioned above, as well as for real people, real places, and authors and books, throughout the volume.

Novels The most accurate text is that of the Oxfo1·d editions. Two series are recommended: I. The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen, all volumes with prefaces,

notes, appendixes, and indexes, by R. W. Chapman: i. Sense and Sensibility, with valuable notes on Jane Austen's

special use of words and grammatical idiosyncrasies. 3rd ed., 1933.

ii. Pride and Prejudice, with notes on chronology, and on modes of address in Jane Austen. Revised, 1965.

iii. Mansfield Park, with the complete text of Mrs Inchbald's Lovers' Vows, and appendixes on chronology, improvements, and travel. Revised, 1966.

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iv. Emma, with a valuable miscellaneous section on the manners of the age, and notes on Jane Austen's punctuation. Revised, 1966.

v. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, with Henry Austen's 'biographical notice of the author', the original ending of Persuasion, notes on the chronologies, and an appendix showing the influence of two of Mrs Radcliffe's novels on Northanger Abbey. Indexes of literary allusions, real persons, and real places, in all six novels, are provided at the end of this volume. Revised, 1965, and again, 1969.

II. The Oxford English Novels series, with introductions, notes, and bibliographies. Like the illustrated edition, these preserve the original two- or three-volume division of the novels:

i. Sense and Sensibility, ed. Claire Lamont, 1970 ii. Pride and Prejudice, ed. Frank W. Bradbrook, 1970

iii. Mansf~eld Park, ed. John Lucas, 1970 iv. Emma, ed. David Lodge, 1971 v. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, ed. John Davie, 1971

The Letters of Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Letters, ed. R. W. Chapman, London, 1932; 2nd ed., revised 1959.

This is the most complete collection available, containing all the letters published, wholly or in part, in J. E. Austen-Leigh's Memoir (1870, 1871) and Lord Brabourne's edition of letters (1884), together with those to Francis Austen in J. H. and E. C. Hubback's Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers (1906). Most of the letters are to Cassandra, and this means that there are long intervals from 1796 to 1817 which are not represented. The ownership of the letters is given as far as possible; and great attention is paid in the indexes to family details, references to other people, places, general topics, authors, books, and plays, Jane Austen's novels, and her special use of words. Notes are provided, together with maps and illustra­tions. The map for the Steventon district is too late for the Austen period, and misleading, as may be seen from the location of the rectories at Steventon and Ashe; the rectory at Ashe which Jane

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knew when it was occupied by the Lefroys was Ashe House, as the 1791 map of Hampshire clearly shows. Meticulous editing, par­ticularly in the indexes, has given this edition great biographical value. To anyone interested in Jane's numerous relatives, and her visits to them, it is indispensable. One drawback which is sometimes encountered is due to the failure to number the pages of the in­dexes, and to give references throughout to pages, rather than to whole letters. A selection of the letters, edited by R. W. Chapman, is available in the World's Classics, also published by the Oxford University Press.

Bibliography

R. W. Chapman, Jane Austen, A Critical Bibliography, London, revised 1955.

A. E. Dyson (ed.), The English Novel: Select Bibliographical Guides, London, 1973.

Biography

James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen, 2nd ed., London, 1871.

The second edition contains important additions to the first: Lady Susan, the fragment which the author of the memoir called The Watsons, the 'Plan of a Novel', the cancelled chapter of Persuasion, and a chapter on Sanditon. Of these, the author thought Lady Susan the most important. This work and The Watsons are omitted from R. W. Chapman's edition of the memoir, 1926.

Although this work has long been superseded as biography, it has a charm which is due partly to the author's character, his intimate knowledge of the Steventon countryside, and even more, one suspects, to the contributors' personal knowledge of Jane. The writer was James Austen's son, but he owed much to the recollections of his sister Caroline and their half-sister Anna, Mrs Ben Lefroy.

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Having known nothing of his aunt in her earlier years, the author not surprisingly exaggerated the isolation and uniformity of her life. The memoir is not always biographically accurate; it contains interesting sidelights on the habits and recreations of the period, but its chief value resides in the glimpses it affords of Jane's per­sonality and character. Though rather a miscellany of distant reminiscences, letters, critical opinions, and impressions of Jane's work, this is a useful volume, containing valuable items such as the cancelled chapter of Persuasion and, perhaps, most important of all, The Watsons.

W. and R. A. Austen, Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, London, 1913.

In most respects this must still be regarded as the definitive life of Jane Austen. It was written by descendants of the author of the Memoir. Their aim was to correct errors in his work, and bring the biography up to date; this they did principally from Jane's letters, the chief source being Lord Brabourne's edition of 1884. Other works which provided new information were the Hubbacks' Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers and Constance Hill's Jane Austen, Her Homes and her Friends. The authors drew largely and expertly from the letters, but their presentation of the material is not always conducive to easy reading and continuous biographical develop­ment. One needs to know a great deal about Jane and her numerous family connections to relish this work to the full. It is a study of great value, but not the best introduction to Jane Austen.

R. W. Chapman, Jane Austen, Facts and Problems, London, 1948; revised, 1950.

There is a tremendous amount to pore over in this book of modest proportions. It is concerned mainly with biographical matters, and is the best supplement toW. and R. A. Austen-Leigh's biography. The author discusses the earlier criticism of Jane Austen rather briefly, and concludes with some interesting notes on various aspects of the novels.

Jane Aiken Hodge, The Double Life of Jane Austen, London, 1972. Though written for 'the general public' this is a scholarly biography.

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Some comments on the novels are surprising: it is hard to realize, for example, that Henry Tilney and Catherine may have degen­erated into a second Mr and Mrs Bennet. Mrs Smith (in Persuasion) receives scant sympathy. These are minor matters. The most startling feature of the book is its title; it is difficult to find con­vincing evidence in support of it. There is a hint in the alleged loneliness and jealousy of Jane when Cassandra fell in love with Tom Fowle; the main argument, which is not obtrusive, seems to depend on the assumption that both sisters must have stayed at Godmersham from 1809 to 1811, and that Cassandra burned the letters she received from Jane at various times during this period in order to conceal a serious emotional crisis in her life. All Jane had to look forward to was being tied to her mother, remaining poor and unmarried - 'nothing but decline and fall'. The evidence, however, suggests that Jane looked forward to settling again in the Hampshire country she loved, living in what she could regard as her own home, and writing the novels which she had not had the opportunity to write for years. Mansfield Park and the Evangel­icalism with which it is wrongly associated were the result of her 'moral climacteric', it is argued; the 'ordination' passage in the letters is read in the usual way and cited as another proof of 'the psychological crisis of the silent years'. The view that Elizabeth de Feuillide is the subject of criticism in Lady Susan and Mary Craw­ford is revived.

Elizabeth Jenkins, Jane Austen, London, 1938. This is the most comprehensive and readable of the biographies. Very little of importance has been overlooked, and due attention is given to Jane Austen's life, letters, works, the places where she lived, and the most important characteristics and developments of her period. Critical expositions of the novels are judicious and sensitive, that of Mansfield Park being the most complete, and those of Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion being perhaps the most memorable. The author's partiality for the details of Jane's cor­respondence rarely leads to disproportion. Repeatedly one is im­pressed by the discrimination, scholarship, and research disclosed in a work of such integrity that it demands, and commands, close attention from first to last. One may disagree with the attribution of Lady Susan to the 1805-6 period, and the acceptance of the

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supposition that the character of its heroine was based on 'the cruel Mrs Craven', grandmother of Martha and Mary Lloyd (see supra, p. 71 and footnote); equally, one may be sceptical of the view that Jane's life was clouded because she fell in love with a young man who died soon after their first brief acquaintance. These are minor matters: this book has more to offer on Jane Austen than any other single work.

Marghanita Laski, Jane Austen and her world, London, 1969. For the literary student, this kind of book provides the best kind of pictorial introduction. A large proportion of the volume is occupied by illustrations, some large-scale and of excellent quality, and some rather remotely connected with Jane Austen and her work. The text is restricted to little more than Jane Austen's life, and one wishes there had been space for more.

Background

Frank W. Bradbrook, Jane Austen and Her Predecessors, London, 1966.

Coincidental resemblances between authors are inevitable, and it is often quite impossible to judge whether, or to what extent, an author has been influenced, consciously or otherwise, by other writers. This study shows extensive reading, and presents valuable suggestions on the degree to which Jane Austen was influenced by writers such as Johnson, Chesterfield, Gilpin, Richardson, Char­lotte Lennox, and Fanny Burney. It does not cover the whole field; there are some writers (Mrs Radcliffe, Cowper, and Crabbe, for example) on whom more could be said. The work sometimes seems rather general and lacking in specific or conclusive reference to influences and parallels; occasionally, as with Sir Egerton Brydges, the resemblance to Jane Austen seems thin-spun and too ingenious to carry conviction. The 'map-work' and discoveries which this pioneering has produced are often of great interest, and indispens­able to future explorers. The area is extensive; its boundaries are frequently uncertain; and new discoveries will modify some of our present conclusions.

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Collected Reports of the Jane Austen Society, 1949-1965 (W. Dawson & Sons Ltd.) London. Reprinted 1967.

This collection of miscellanea is of great interest. It includes an introduction by Elizabeth Jenkins, reprints of articles, many valuable illustrations, and the full text of the addresses given on various aspects of Jane Austen's work at annual meetings of the Society during the second half of the above period.

W. A. Craik, Jane Austen in Her Time, London, 1969. This study is based on a close examination of Jane Austen's novels, with which it remains firmly in contact throughout. In the later chapters, room is found to range more widely. Numerous illustra­tions of excellent quality are included. (Among them it is strange to find Harleston Park given as supposedly the original of Mansfield Park.) To appreciate this compact, thorough, and original study, the reader needs to be familiar with Jane Austen's work.

Donald J. Greene, 'Jane Austen and the Peerage', PMLA, LXVIII, December 1953, and *Watt (see note to 'Critical Essays, Lectures, and Extracts', p. 314).

In the Fitzwilliam family and their association with Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, can be traced names for families in Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and The Watsons; among them, Anne Wentworth, for example. The D' Arcys were another great Yorkshire family. In Collins' The Peerage of England, Bertrams and Musgraves appear in the Fitzwilliam family, and an ancestor of the Earls Ferrers marries Eleanor, daughter of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Middleton; there are Dashwoods, Eliots, Bennets, and the barony of Bingley, and family names which occur in Jane's juvenilia- the Gowers, the Stanleys, Wynnes, Percivals, and Dudleys. The stan­dard edition was revised by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1808; the original compiler Arthur Collins dedicated a succession of volumes of his work to members of the nobility in panegyrics suggesting Mr Collins and Lady Catherine de Bourgh; and Sir Egerton proudly traced his relationship to 'the House of De Burgh', and did not hesitate to express his disdain of lawyers. (Although he was Mrs Lefroy's brother, Jane Austen's remarks on his novel Arthur Fitzalbini in her letter of 25 November 1798, show little sympathy for the author.) Was Jane a little apprehensive later about her

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audacity in keeping the Fitzwilliam name, and is this shown in her disclaimer (Sir Walter Elliot's) that the Wentworths had nothing to do with the Straffords. Or was she sufficiently the Tory to satisfy followers of Pitt in reflecting the pride of a great Whig family? As a 'Tory democrat' she exemplified the spirit of her time in being 'enthusiastic both for the notion of nobless oblige and for the notion of la carriere ouverte aux talents'. It could be argued that 'the unifying thesis' of Jane Austen's novels is the rise of the middle class.

Constance Hill, Jane Austen, Her Homes and her Friends, London and New York, 1902.

This is a light and very readable work, with portrait reproductions, and many illustrations of exteriors and interiors by Ellen Hill. It blends biography with topographical background, and includes apt quotations from the letters, family records, and critics.

Hazel Mews, Frail Vessels (Woman's role in women's novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot), London, 1969.

Of the four sections devoted to women in Jane Austen in this scholarly study, those on women awaiting marriage, women as wives, and women as mothers are the most important. Jane Austen's central preoccupation is with moral principles. Unlike Willoughby, her heroines do not marry for money and position. In Mary Craw­ford, we see vivacity, intelligence, and grace allied to shallow principles. The virtues which Jane Austen implicitly extols are self-knowledge, self-control, fortitude, reason, taste, and tenderness of heart.

G. E. Mitton, Jane .Austen and Her Times, London, 1905. This miscellaneous and discursive work combines, somewhat awkwardly at times, biography with background topics, history, and illustrative material, which is sometimes irrelevant to Jane Austen's works. It contains many passages from her novels and letters. Criticism is slight and not highly penetrating; the generali­zations are sometimes uncritical. On certain background topics, such as travel and dress, the author provides particularly valuable information. This is a hook for the reader who wishes to browse rather than for the specialist.

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Critical Essays, Lectures, and Extracts

These shorter criticisms are presented in chronological order. Selection has inevitably been difficult; it has depended not on agreement with authors' views, but on the importance of the issues raised and the cogency with which they are presented.

Two collections of essays on Jane Austen are referred to: *Watt- Ian Watt, Jane Austen, A Collection of Critical Essays,

Prentice-Hall, 1963. *Southam- B. C. Southam, Critical Essays on Jane Austen,

London and New York, 1968.

General A. C. Bradley, 'Jane Austen', Essays and Studies, 1911. Reginald Farrer, 'Jane Austen', The Quarterly Review, 1917. Virginia Woolf, Tlze Common Reader, London, 1925. Lord David Cecil, 'Jane Austen' (the Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1955),

Poets and Story-Tellers, London, 1949. D. W. Harding, 'Regulated Hatred, An Aspect of the Work of

Jane Austen', Scrutiny, 1940, and *Watt. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition, London, 1948; new ed., 1960,

pp. 4-10. Edwin Muir, Essays on Literature and Society, London, 1949;

revised, 1965. F. W. Bradbrook, 'Style and Judgment in Jane Austen's Novels',

The Cambridge Journal, June 1951. C. S. Lewis, 'A Note on Jane Austen', Essays in Criticism, 1954, and

*Watt. Langdon Elsbree, 'Jane Austen and the Dance of Fidelity and

Complaisance', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Sept. 1960. Ian Jack, 'The Epistolary Element in Jane Austen', English Studies

Today, 2nd series, ed. G. A. Bonnard, Bern, 1961. Norman Page, 'Standards of Excellence: Jane Austen's Language',

The Review of English Studies, 1966. D. W. Harding, 'Character and Caricature in Jane Austen'

(*Southam, 1968). Donald D. Stone, 'Sense and Semantics in Jane Austen', Nineteenth­

Century Fiction, June 1970.

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Graham Hough, 'Narrative and Dialogue in Jane Austen', The Critical Quarterly, 1970.

Northanger Abbey Alan D. McKillop, 'Critical Realism in Northanger Abbey' (*Watt),

1958.

Sense and Sensibility Lord David Cecil, The Fine Art of Reading, London, 1957, and

introduction to the World's Classics edition of the novel. Ian Watt, 'On Sense and Sensibility' (*Watt); introduction to the

novel, Harper & Row, 1961.

Pride and Prejudice Reuben A. Brewer, 'Light and Bright and Sparkling' (*Watt),

from R. A. Brewer, The Fields of Light, London, 1951.

Mansfzeld Park David Lodge, 'A Question of Judgement: The Theatricals at

Mansfield Park', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Sept. 1962. Joseph W. Donohue, Jr., 'Ordination and the Divided House at

Mansfield Park', E.L.H., 1965. Denis Donoghue, 'A View of Mansfield Park, (*Southam, 1968). Tony Tanner, 'Jane Austen and "The Quiet Thing"' (ibid.). Robert A. Draffen, 'Mansfield Park: Jane Austen's Bleak House',

Essays in Criticism, 1969. Alistair M. Duckworth, 'Mansfield Park and Estate Improvement',

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, June 1971.

Emma Joseph M. Duffy, Jr., 'Emma: The Awakening from Innocence',

E.L.H., 1954. Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 'Emma: Character and Construction',

PMLA, 1956. Wayne C. Booth, 'Point of View and the Control of Distance in

Emma', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Sept. 1961. W. J. Harvey, 'The Plot of Emma', Essays in Criticism, 1967. David Lodge, ed., Jane Austen, 'Emma', London and New York,

1968. (This casebook contains most of the criticism from the

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contemporary period onwards, and some recent studies, in­cluding those by Shannon, Booth, and Harvey.)

Persuasion Joseph M. Duffy, Jr., 'Structure and Idea in Jane Austen's Per­

suasion', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, March 1954. Paul N. Zietlow, 'Luck and Fortuitous Circumstance in Persuasion:

Two Interpretations', E.L.H., 1965. Andor Gomme, 'On Not Being Persuaded', Essays in Criticism,

1966. Laurence Lerner, The Truthtellers, London and Toronto, 1967,

pp. 166-72. Malcolm Bradbury, 'Persuasion Again', Essays in Criticism, 1968.

Critical Works

HowardS. Babb, Jane Austen's Novels, The Fabric of Dialogue, Hamden, Connecticut, 1967.

This is a major study from an unusual angle. After important pre­liminary considerations of Jane Austen's style, the author discusses the novels in turn, with special reference to the dialogue. In novels which are not strong in incident, the major events reside in the dialogue, which indicates by subtle shades and emphases the forces determining views and behaviour. The work is demanding; it illustrates the need to read Jane Austen closely if we are to notice the finer discriminations and, more important, the extent to which emotion is expressed, simulated, or suppressed. Generally the examples illuminate character, and show sound critical observation. The study began with the wider implications of a key passage in Pride and Prejudice; and the final analysis of this novel, presenting Darcy as an impressively human character, is probably the most original and fascinating section of this work.

W. A. Craik, Jane Austen, The Six Novels, London, 1965. The author takes the view that Jane Austen suffers from critics who are willing to find irony where it was not intended, and quotes Mary Lascelles: 'The simplicity of Jane Austen's work is the

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simplicity of a thing made with simple tools'. This may seem an extreme reaction, but it does not mar this study in any way. The writer judges Jane with very little recourse to other critics' spectacles, and it is refreshing to find impressions which are new or rarely emphasized. She rightly stresses the importance of 'reported thought-process', and states that it is Jane's 'most original method'. Style and organization are considered, but greater emphasis falls on character analysis. The treatment is methodical and thorough, without high-lighting. Mrs Craik has looked closely at most aspects of Jane Austen, large and small; and her book requires and merits the same kind of attention.

Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate, Baltimore and London, 1971.

This is an important book, one of the most original and scholarly studies of Jane Austen to be published in recent years. It contains many excellent analyses (such as that of the laughter motif in Pride and Prejudice), and some timely and sensible disagreements with critics such as D. W. Harding, Arnold Kettle, D. H. Lawrence, Marvin Mudrick, and Mark Schorer. The thematic hypothesis that the estate reflects cultural heritage and moral order, or lack of it, has great relevance to Mansfreld Park, but raises questions at a number of points. Fortunately it is not uppermost throughout a large proportion of the work. The linking of 'improvements' with political 'innovation' has some justification, but it is doubtful whether Jane Austen found Repton altogether distasteful or destruc­tive; Fanny Price and Mr Knightley can be regarded as too 'norma­tive'. Pemberley is presented as 'a model estate', but one cannot suppose that it changed significantly during the period of Darcy's reformation. The assertion that an abundance of tt·ees signifies that all is well makes us think of Sotherton and Sanditon House, each of which is finely timbered according to the reliable testimony of Edmund Bertram and Jane Austen. To cast moral doubts on Sidney Parker because he is 'a poor letter-writer' suggests that criticism is becoming stereotyped. The lack of an 'ultimate' locality or estate for Charlotte Heywood and of an 'ideal locus' in Northanger Abbey (Woodston seems to be out of the question) creates problems. But for his character, we are told, the house and gardens of General Tilney would afford an apt emblem of a 'structured society', which seems

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to imply, in Burke's words, 'a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve'. As the General shows too well, both features can be dominant in a loveless person. Fanny Price and Anne Elliot are actuated by principles, but to make those of the former synonymous with Mansfield Park values raises considerable doubt, and to associ­ate those of the latter with Kellynch Hall seems hardly justifiable. The ethical impulse of Jane Austen may have been largely con­servative, but throughout her novels it insists on the recognition of intrinsic merit regardless of rank or wealth.

Yasmine Gooneratne, Jane Austen, London and New York, 1970. Most of this careful study is devoted to the six novels. One may disagree here and there on slighter matters or detail, but in general the work shows sound judgment, though the overriding emphasis on moral analysis and assessment gives the impression that Jane Austen is more formidable than open-minded readers are likely to find her. In the preliminary chapters on the minor works and letters, interest turns principally on the way they point to the novels. There is no reference to Catharine, Jane's most remarkable piece of early fiction; and too much weight is attached to the influence of Lady Susan and The Watsons on Mansf~.eld Park and Emma.

Henrietta Ten Harmsel, Jane Austen, A Study in Fictional Con-ventions, The Hague, London, and Paris, 1964.

This interesting but admittedly incomplete analysis of the novels shows how Jane Austen first burlesqued the fictional conventions deriving from Richardson, and then transformed them through 'realism, developing character, variety of function, and irony'. The same method applied to each novel (with Ieference to heroines, heroes, villains, chaperons, and the Cinderella motif, for example) can hardly avoid monotony at times, and leads to some forcing or disproportioning of the evidence. The work is thorough, clear, and compact, and merits close study.

Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern, Talking of Jane Austen and More Talk of Jane Austen, London, 1943 and 1950 respectively.

The two authors write entertainingly on many things, including Jane Austen's 'chumps', parsons, and more peripheral people (and how

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different they are from the impressions we are given of them through the eyes of some of Jane's less intelligent and estimable characters). There is much chat and conjecture, and sometimes a long digression ('The Mansfield Park Quartette' eventually returns to its subject). The writers know the novels intimately, and discuss the characters as if they are living persons, a suggestion which may not commend itself to critics, who are so engrossed in the process of growth or creation that they are unwilling to accept the view that some fictional characters are more alive in readers' minds, and better known, than acquaintances of many years' standing. The authors do not always agree, and readers will not always agree with them. Some will be shocked to find that Pride and Prejudice is considered the least meritorious of the six novels, but this simply means that the others are rated very highly.

Readers who know Jane Austen well and have time for a 'gossip' will find much sense in these pleasant books, and here and there a genuine trouvaille. One is always coming across something new in Jane Austen; she did not usually waste words, nor did she always use them in quite the modern sense.

Essays in alternation by the two authors are continued in the second volume, with surveys of illness, love and flirtation and marriage, parents (in order of merit) and children (based on a wrong conception of Jane), families, and servants, in all six novels. For those who like fiction there are some imaginary scenes, taking place seven years after the closing events of Jane's stories. It is hardly surprising that some of the detail and illustrations are repeated in this second round of essays. Like the first, this volume is eked out with minor items, including amalgams of fact and fiction. The reader who reaches the end may well wish that two such knowledgeable authors had written a work less diffuse and miscel­laneous.

Margaret Kennedy, Jane Austen, London, 1950. With one qualification, this is the best of introductions to Jane Austen's work. It is excellently written, and shows fine critical perception. Mansfield Park is selected as Jane Austen's chef d'reuvre. The weakest part of the book comes at the end, where Jane's life of retirement and her ignorance of external affairs are much exaggerated.

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Mary Lascelles, Jane Austen and her Art, London, 1939. This is a wise and scholarly work, which will repay careful reading. It opens with a biography which is compact. The greater part of the book is devoted to criticism; occasionally it is rather general and even circuitous·, but the level is high. The chapter on style is par­ticularly discriminating. Observations on Jane Austen's narrative art are so fine that one could wish for more. Interesting conjectures are raised, and the author's points of view are memorably expressed.

Robert Liddell, The Novels of Jane Austen, London, 1963. The text is the result of a most searching study of the novels; it is generally compressed, and thick with quotations and references. Each novel is treated in subdivisions, and these do not always com­bine to give a sense of the whole, in pattern or in theme. There is much that commands approval in this concentrated study, but it does not make easy reading.

A. Walton Litz, Jane Austen, A Study of Her Artistic Development, London and New York, 1965.

This scholarly critical analysis is particularly valuable in linking Jane Austen's subjects and reactions to the relevant literary back­ground and common attitudes to life and art at the end of the eighteenth century. The main theme of the study may be too un­complicated at times. The discussion of Mansfreld Park, for ex­ample, seems to be hinged too much on the play and acting, in conformity with the view that Jane's novels are based largely on the conflicting claims of imagination and reason; here, of art and morality. Scant justice is done to Sense and Sensibility, and Per­suasion is rather sketchily presented. Other studies are excellent; and the evaluation of The Watsons is refreshing. Incidental criticisms of other critics' views are almost invariably justified. A useful appendix on the chronology of composition concludes this important work.

Darrel Mansell, Tire Novels of Jane Austen, An Interpretation, London and New York, 1973.

The author concentrates on the process of psychological reformation whereby the heroines of the six novels are made aware of realities. Almost everything else in Jane Austen's fiction is subordinate to

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this theme, which is central to her art. Her novels are shaped by a preconceived intellectual scheme which overrides potentialities for realism. This interpretation, criticism of which is anticipated in the preface, accounts for some of the more puzzling episodes such as Elinor Dashwood's slight (or is it only temporary?) change of heart towards Willoughby, the coincidental meeting of Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy at Pemberley, and Mrs Smith's story in Persuasion.

Kenneth L. Moler, Jane Austen's Art of Allusion, Lincoln, 1968. In this lucid and valuable study the emphasis is on the literary background and ideas which Jane Austen could assume her con­temporary readers to possess. Interpretation of the novels is often refreshingly sound, particularly with reference to Mansfield Park. Certain questions arise: whether the author's attitude to Elinor Dashwood is ironic, whether Elinor is just the embodiment of sense, and her sympathy for Willoughby gets the better of her judgment for long. Is there a real inconsistency between the Darcy we first meet and Darcy at the end of Pride and Prejudice? The 'art' and 'nature' antithesis is frequently invoked, sometimes with conno­tations too wide to be useful. There must be general agreement that Jane Austen's earlier novels are more directed at, or influenced by, literature than her last three. Here the background to the 'persuasion' theme, and references to Hannah More's Strictures in relationship to Mansfzeld Park seem to have a special validity. Emma's literary Quixotism may have been pushed too far, however.

Marvin Mudrick, Jane Austen, Irony as Defense and Discovery, Princeton, 1952.

This is a challenging book. It is full of fine observations from Jane Austen's works, and these have proved so acceptable that many of them will be found in later critical studies. Of special interest are the parallels which are shown between 'Love and Friendship' and Laura and Augustus, a novel 'by a lady' (Elizabeth Nugent Bromley), which was published in 1784. It is the general direction or theme which is arguable, leading as it does to numerous clear­cut, inadequately qualified, and overcharged conclusions. Lady Susan is the 'unique' work in which Jane kept her society steadily in focus; Marianne Dashwood was betrayed by her author, and buried in the coffin of convention; Darcy was flattened by a clumsy

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novelist who was a victim of bourgeois morality; both the Craw­fords were 'brutally sacrificed'; Emma has no feeling, has changed only temporarily, and (an additional irony intended by her author) is destined to be unhappy in marriage. The argument is that Jane Austen used the shield of irony in order to remain detached and uncommitted in the service of comedy; that when she committed herself she accepted genteel, life-destroying stan­dards; and that her emancipation can be seen developing in Persuasion and Sanditon. The chapters on these two works have more to offer than the earlier ones. At first sight, the writer's views are arresting, but attention to all the relevant evidence must raise doubts about their validity. One cannot show what Jane Austen could, or would, have been as an author by reference to private and often flippant communications to her sister Cassandra; the person and the artist are not identical. The irony, it could be maintained, was not so much a shield for defence as a weapon continually and effectively used in attack.

Norman Page, The Language of Jane Austen, Oxford, 1972. This study illustrates in a variety of ways the artistry and moral implications of Jane Austen's novels. It is by her style and tech­nique that events and issues, which sometimes appear slight, be­come momentous and impressive. The 'satisfactorily hard-edged moral and intellectual quality' in the traditional words she uses forms one feature of her method. In syntactical devices she was more adventurous and original; through them she continually demonstrated character. In 'free indirect speech' as well as in dialogue she showed remarkable economy, flexibility, and dramatic skill. The author contends that Jane Austen's triumph as a novelist is in her style, and goes far to exemplify her subtlety and distinction.

K. C. Phillipps, Jane Austen's English, London, 1970. This is an indispensable study for readers who are interested in Jane Austen's use of English. It is illustrated from her letters and the six novels, and makes explicit R. W. Chapman's notes on the subject in Jane Austen's Letters and his edition of Sense and Sensibility (see p. 306), but is much more complete. The first section on vocabulary reveals many meanings peculiar to the author's period, and the dramatic discrimination which endows her speech

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forms with many shades of character from the vulgar to the grandly pretentious. The second section on sentence construction will appeal more to students of linguistics than to students of literature, though its grammatical analysis is not wholly detached from literary appreciation. A short section on modes of address concludes this scholarly work, and the indexes make it a valuable book for reference.

B. C. Southam, Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts, London, 1964. This is a very thorough study of all the works existing in manu­script form: the juvenilia, Lady Susan, The Watsons, 'The Plan of a Novel', the revised two chapters which embody the climax of Persuasion, and Sanditon. Many valuable references are made to Jane Austen's literary background. The detailed scholarship of this work will, in general, stand up to the closest critical attention, though it is surprising to hear that Sanditon is 'a fragment that could take its place in the completed novel with little change'. Cogent points are made in an appendix devoted to refuting Mrs Leavis's argumentl that characters in Mansfzeld Park derive from Jane Austen's juvenile compositions and Lady Susan, that the latter work was based on Eliza de Feuillide's courtship of Jane's brother Henry, and that Emma is a development from much of The Watsons.

C. L. Thomson, Jane Austen, A Survey, London, 1929. This may be regarded as the first major critical study ofJ ane Austen's works. It is scholarly, and excellently written. Discussion of each novel tends to rely too much on character sketches; and more needs to be said on intentions and performance in Mansfzeld Park and Persuasion. An unusual readiness to pronounce on the origin of characters and situations is noticeable. Yet this is a book which merits careful reading; it shows original research, and a great deal of excellent observation and judgment.

Andrew H. Wright, Jane Austen's Novels, A Study in Structure, London and Toronto, 1955.

The subtitle may seem misleading; the principal theme is Jane 1 Mrs Leavis's detective zeal seems to have precluded a number of

important factors. Her study of Jane's letters is less conjectural, and more soundly based. See Scrutiny, x (1941), pp. 61-87, 114-42, (1942), pp. 272-94; xii (1944), pp. 104-19.

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Austen's irony, its variety and pervasiveness. The arrangement of this work is neat but demanding. A most valuable chapter on the complexity of Jane's presentation, her shifting viewpoints, is liberally illustrated from all the novels, and moves so rapidly from point to point that it assumes a close knowledge of them. The major part of the work contains a disproportionate amount of narrative summary for such a reader. Here the division into heroines, heroes, and villains, novel by novel, is a convenient but misleading sim­plification. The integration of all this in more sustained studies of the novels might have been more illuminating. The work as a whole is compact, scholarly, and clear; it makes a valuable contribu­tion to the implications of Jane Austen's style. The conclusion that Mansfield Park lacks irony, that, like Lady Susan, it is uncompli­catedly didactic, and that it is much simpler than Jane's other novels, is puzzling.

Appendixes

1. Cassandra Austen's Memorandum on the

Composition Dates of Jane Austen's Novels

These notes are reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Henry Burke. For the readers' convenience the titles are given in italics, and some punctuation has been supplied; abbreviations have been eliminated for the same reason. A facsimile of the original may be seen opposite p. 242 of Minor Works, Volume VI of the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen.

Cassandra's spelling of Northanger Abbey is of special interest. Her 'North-hanger' suggests a close association with woods on a steep northern slope. The likelihood that this is the explanation of the name is supported by the conclusion of chapter xvii of the novel.

First Impressions begun in October 1796. Finished in August 1797. Published afterwards, with alterations and contractions, under the title of Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility begun November 1797. I am sure that something of the same story and character had been written earlier and called Elinor and Marianne. Mansfield Park, begun somewhere about February 1811 -Finished soon after June 1813. Emma- begun January 21st 1814, finished March 29th 1815. Persuasion begun August 8th 1815, finished August 6th 1816. North-hanger Abbey was written about the years '98 and '99. C.E.A.

2. Plan of a Novel according to hints from various quarters

The text given below is that presented by J. E. Austen-Leigh in the second edition of his Memoir. It is an 'improved' and slightly abridged version of the original, which may be seen in the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen, Vol. VI, Minor Works, pp. 428-430.

Undoubtedly this burlesque originated from the egocentric recommendations of the Reverend James Stanier Clarke (see p. 21), but it is clear that Jane filled out her scheme with absurdities from the kind of fiction she had burlesqued in her early years as a writer. The notes in the margin of her manuscript, with the obvious exception of 'Mr. Clarke', are of no great significance, though they serve to make even more explicit the tone of the writer. The heroine is faultless and accomplished (like Fanny Knight); her eyes and cheeks are like those of Jane's friend, Mary Cooke of Great Book­ham; and her father is an exemplary parish p1·iest (like the former vicar of Godmersham, who, after reading Emma, expressed his disapproval of Jane Austen's delineations of clergymen; see MW. 437 and Letters, 339). One can understand why the editorial proclivities of Jane Austen's nephew led to the exclusion of such private references as these, but his omission of the chaplain's burial of his mother was unfortunate. This incident was taken from J. S. Clarke's career, and had been recommended by him for inclusion in a novel by Jane.

His letters on this subject should be read. The two which are related to the 'Plan of a Novel' will be found in R. W. Chapman's Jane Austen's Letters, 2nd ed., pp. 429-30 and 444-5.

* * * * * * 'Heroine to be the daughter of a clergyman, who after having lived much in the world had retired from it, and settled on a curacy with a very small fortune of his own. The most excellent man that can be imagined, perfect in character, temper, and manner, without

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the smallest drawback or peculiarity to prevent his being the most delightful companion to his daughter from one year's end to the other. Heroine faultless in character, beautiful in person, and possessing every possible accomplishment. Book to open with father and daughter conversing in long speeches, elegant language, and a tone of high serious sentiment. The father induced, at his daughter's earnest request, to relate to her the past events of his life. Narrative to reach through the greater part of the first volume; as besides all the circumstances of his attachment to her mother, and their marriage, it will comprehend his going to sea as chaplain to a distinguished naval character about the court; and his going after­wards to court himself, which involved him in many interesting situations, concluding with his opinion of the benefits of tithes being done away with .... From this outset the story will proceed, and contain a striking variety of adventures. Father an exemplary parish priest, and devoted to literature; but heroine and father never above a fortnight in one place: he being driven from his curacy by the vile arts of some totally unprincipled and heartless young man, desperately in love with the heroine, and pursuing her with unrelenting passion. No sooner settled in one country of Europe, than they are compelled to quit it, and retire to another, always making new acquaintance, and always obliged to leave them. This will of course exhibit a wide variety of character. The scene will be for ever shifting from one set of people to another, but there will be no mixture, all the good will be unexceptionable in every respect. There will be no foibles or weaknesses but with the wicked, who will be completely depraved and infamous, hardly a resemblance of humanity left in them. Early in her career, the heroine must meet with the hero: all perfection, of course, and only prevented from paying his addresses to her by some excess of refinement. Wherever she goes, somebody falls in love with her, and she receives repeated offers of marriage, which she refers wholly to her father, exceedingly angry that he should not be the first applied to. Often carried away by the anti-hero, but rescued either by her father or the hero. Often reduced to support herself and her father by her talents, and work for her bread; continually cheated, and defrauded of her hire; worn down to a skeleton, and now and then starved to death. At last, hunted out of civilized society, denied the poor shelter of the humblest cottage, they are compelled to retreat

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into Kamtschatka, 1 where the poor father quite worn down, finding his end approaching, throws himself on the ground, and after four or five hours of tender advice and parental admonition to his miserable child, expires in a fine burst of literary enthusiasm, intermingled with invectives against the holders of tithes. Heroine inconsolable for some time, but afterwards crawls back towards her former country, having at least twenty narrow escapes of falling into the hands of anti-hero; and at last, in the very nick of time, turning a corner to avoid him, runs into the arms of the hero himself, who, having just shaken off the scruples which fettered him before, was at the very moment setting off in pursuit of her. The tenderest and completest t!claircissement takes place, and they are happily united. Throughout the whole work heroine to be in the most elegant society, and living in high style.'

1 In the north-east corner of Siberia, almost on the other side of the Earth from England.

9. Jane Austen and The Mirror

The Mirror appeared under the general editorship of Henry Mackenzie (the principal contributor) from January 1779 to May 1780. A two-volume edition followed, and the collection was so popular that by 1792 it had reached its ninth issue. Reference has already been made (p. 295) to the evidence in Northanger Abbe)' of Jane Austen's familiarity with some of these essays, and to the possibility that one of them may have suggested some of the main features in the relationship between Emma Woodhouse and her father.

One does not have to look far to find other subjects which were of special interest to Jane Austen. Many papers would have appealed to her fictional sense of humour. Some could have caused her to reflect on accomplishments and education (e.g. 15, 35), and on a young lady's disadvantages, in the eyes of the other sex, of being informed and well-read {89; cf. NA. xiv). Equally agreeable might have been a narrative exposition on the 'danger of regulating our conduct by the rules of romantic sentiment', and the following reflections on novel-writing:

The great error, indeed, into which novel-writers commonly fall, is, that they attend more to the story and to the circum­stances they relate, than to giving new and just views of the character of the person they present. . . . From the surprise occasioned by the novelty or nature of the events, they may carry the reader once through them: but, as they do not illustrate any of the principles of the mind, or give any interesting views of character, they raise no desire for a second perusal, and ever after lie neglected on the shelf.

The essay concludes with reference to novelists who have the 'happy talent of delineating all the delicate features and nice tints of character'; it is this which makes Richardson 'so interesting, in spite of his immeasurable tediousness', and Fielding 'delightful, notwithstanding the indelicate coarseness with which he often offends us'. That these last sentiments were very much in line with Jane Austen's is confirmed in her brother's recollections (seep. 164).

4. The Austen Family George Austen, 1731-1805 = Cassandra Leigh, 1739-1827

(m. 26 April 1764)

Children

1. (Rev.) James, 1765-1819 (1) Anne Mathew m. 1792

d. 1795 (2) Mary Lloyd 1 m. 1797

d. 1843

2. George, 1766-1838

3. Edward (Knight), 1768-1852 = Elizabeth Bridges m. 1791

d. 1808

4. (Rev.) Henry Thomas, 1771-1850 (1) Eliza de Feuillide m. 1797

d. 1813 (2) Eleanor Jackson m. 1820

5. Cassandra Elizabeth, 1773-~ 1845

6. (Sir) Francis William, 1774-1865 (1) Mary Gibson m. 1806

d. 1823 (2) Martha Lloyd m. 1828

d. 1843

Grandchildren

-Anna = (Rev.) B. Lefroy

-(1) James Edward' (2) Caroline

(1) Fannya (2) Edward (3) George (4) Henry (5) William (6) Elizabeth (Lizzy) (7) Mari­anne (8) Charles (9) Louisa (10) Cassandra Jane (11) Brook John

-(1) Mary Jane (2) Francis William (3) Henry Edgar (4) George (5) Cassandra Eliza (6) Herbert Grey (7) Elizabeth

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Children

7. Jane, 1775-1817

8. Charles John, 1779-1852 (1) Frances Palmer m. 1807

d. 1814 (2) Harriet Palmer m. 1820

Grandchildren

-(1) Cassandra (2) Harriet Jane (3) Frances

1 Sister-in-law of the Rev. Thomas Fowle, 1766-97, to whom Cassandra was engaged.

• Author of A Memoir of Jane Austen, 1870; he inherited the Leigh Perrot estate and became the first of the Austen-Leighs.

a Lady Knatchbull, mother of the first Lord Brabourne, editor of Letters of Jane Austen, 1884.

5. The Naval Careers of Francis and Charles Austen

(Compiled from J. H. and E. C. Hubback, Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, London and New York, 1906)

FRANCIS, b. 23 April 1774 CHARLES, b. 23 June 1779

Both were trained at the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth, the course normally being a three-year one for boys of 12 to 15 on

admission.

1788. Left at the end of the year for four years in the East Indies on the Perseverance, Crown, and Minerva. 1792. Made lieutenant. 1793-6. In home waters, in­cluding service on the Lark sloop.

1796 (Sept.) The TritorL (frigate).

1797 (late) The Seahorse. 1798 (Feb.) The London; block­ading Cadiz. (Dec.) Commander of the Peterel sloop. 1799. Service in the Mediter­ranean. 1800. Captures La Ligurienne brig off Marseilles; in the Middle­East. Promoted to the rank of post captain. 1801. Appointed to the Neptune as flag-captain to Admiral Gam­bier. 1802 The Peace of Amiens 1803. At Ramsgate, raising 'sea fencibles' against invasion. 1804. Appointed to the Leopard, the flagship of Rear-Admiral

1791. Entered the Academy (Life, 43). 1794. Left to serve as midship­man under Capt. Thomas Wil­liams on the Daedalus, Unicorn, and Endymion. 1796. The Unicorn captures La Tribune in home waters. 1797. Lieutenant, the Scorpion. 1798. (Dec.) The Tamar (not refitted).

1799. Transferred to the Endy­mion. 1800. Service in the Mediter­ranean; escorting Indiamen; cap­ture of the Scipio.

1801. Taking troops to Egypt.

1802. The Peace of Amiens 1803. Re-appointed to the Endy­mion. 1804. Commander of the Indian sloop. Serving on the North

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Louis; blockading the Boulogne flotilla.

1805. Appointed to the Canopus as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Louis, second in command to Nelson. With Nelson's fleet in pursuit of Villeneuve; blockading Cadiz; misses the battle of Trafalgar (where the Canopus would have been fifth in the van) as a result of being sent to Gibraltar for water supplies. 1806. Battle of St Domingo. Marriage. At Southampton. 1807. (April) The St Albans; on convoy to the Cape. 1808. To St Helena. Taking troops to Portugal. 1809. (Jan.) Spithead, in charge of the disembarkation of Sir John Moore's troops; (April) con­voying East Indiamen to China. 1810. On leave from September to December. 1811. The Caledonia, off French coast. On leave May to July. (July) The Elephant. 1812. War with the United States, and capture of the Sword­fish from Boston. Convoying into the Baltic. 1813. Convoying Swedish troops to Pomerania. 1814. Returns home. 1815. C.B. At Chawton House.

1830. Rear-Admiral. 1838. Vice-Admiral.

1845. Commander-in-Chief on theN. American and W. Indies Station.

American Station, to prevent neutrals from trading with France, until 1810.

1807. Married the daughter of the Attorney-General, Bermuda.

1810. Captain of the Swiftsure, Sir John Warren's flagship. (Sept.) The Cleopatra. 1811. (April) Home after six and a half years. (Nov.) Appointed to the Namur, flag-captain to Sir Thomas Williams, Commander­in-Chief at the Nore.

1814. IncommandofthePhoeniz in the Mediterranean after Napo­leon's escape from Elba. 1826. West Indies Station, sup­pressing the slave-trade.

1840. C.B. for naval services in the Middle-East.

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186.2. Rear-Admiral and Vice­Admiral of the United Kingdom. 1863. Admiral of the Fleet. 1865. Died at the age of 91.

1846. Rear-Admiral. 1850. Commander-in-Chief on the East India Station. 185.2. Died on service in Burma.

Index

accomplishments (young ladies'), 40-1, 44-5, 108, 329

Addison, Joseph 100, 158 address, modes of 41-2 Adlestrop 3, 16 Alton 8, 16, 17, 18, 21,23 America (the United States) 25,

27, 104, 155 Andover 4, 234 Andrews, P. B. S. 93 n. Antigua 27, 104, 193-4 Ashe 11, 21 n., 307-8 Astley's Royal Amphitheatre 250 Austen, Anna (niece). See Lefroy,

Mrs Benjamin Austen, Caroline (niece) 18, 21,

22, 52, 84, 308 Austen, Cassandra (mother) 3,

6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 39, 53, 133 (hypo­chondria), 255

Austen, Cassandra Eli1.abeth (sister) 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (engagement), 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 43, 53, 60, 74, 101, 148, 149, 151, 152, 155, 157, 325 (memo­randum)

Austen, Charles John (brother) 6, 8, 10, 13, 20, 21, 25, 26, 53,149,153,155,269,272, 278, 332-4

Austen, Edward (brother = Knight, 1812) 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 53; (death of his wife Elizabeth) 16, 153

Austen, Francis (of Sevenoaks) 3, 6

Austen, Francis (Frank) William (brother) 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 25, 26-7, 52-3, 55, 58, 109-10,149,153,154,236, 273,282,288,332-4

Austen, George (brother) 6, 7 Austen, Rev. George (father) 3,

6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 39, 40, 52, 53, 72, 92, 153

Austen, Henry Thomas (brother) 6,7-8,11-12,13,14,15,16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 53, 56, 87 n., 101, 102, 106, 123, 127, 132, 149, 153, 156, 160, 164, 174, 216, 244, 253, 255

Austen, James (brother) 6, 7, 10,11,14,15,16,21,23,53, 56, 101, 102, 104 (plural­ism), 153, 204

AUSTEN, JANE

Her life 3-23; description of 18; reading aloud 20, 52;

Index

travel 27-8; fatal illness 22-3, 130, 133, 154

And children 16-17, 155-6, 186, 243; dancing 49; London 28, 30; marriage and engagements 35, 49-50, 68, 90, 99-100, 111, 142-3, 155-6; moral principles 155, 159, 164, 174; the navy 128, 142; political views 313, 318; religion (including Evan­gelicalism) 112, 114, 155, 310; Scotland 161, 172; social classes 36-7, 95, 100,115,127-8,142-3

See also topics such as accom-plishments, education, materialism

Works. For particular sketches, stories, and novels, see separate titles

General characteristics 135-147; anti-fictional works and features 55, 56-7, 60, 61, 63, 65, 71, 78-80, 81, 82, 86, 89, 95-6, 98, 116, 135, 137-8, 143, 177, 181, 186, 326-8; calendars, use of xii, 93, 103-4; character and environment (see edu­cation); character and heredity 95, 145-6; charac­ter revealed in speech and literary taste 143, 265; happy endings 90-1, 125, 140; integrity of plot 138, 147; irony 82-3, 90, 98-9, 109,112,117,118-19,121-122, 124, 144, 184, 201, 322, 323-4; moral endings and didacticism 99-100, 105, 121-2, 127, 182; moral judgment 56, 140-1, 142, 317, 318; mystery and sus­pense 89, 141; natural

background 78-9, 119-20, 126,128,136, 146,174;the novel, views on 137-9; place-names in fiction 280-281; plot and character 69, 138,147, 171; provincialism (alleged) and limitations 24-8, 135-7, 154-5, 189; psychological realism 61, 69, 85, 90, 118-19, 132-3, 143-5, 166-7, 230, 232, 317; social range 35-7, 136; style 32, 143-4, 158, 160, 183,187,316,320,322,324; symbolical trends 67-8, 105-6, 126, 146-7; volume division and design of novels 96n., 128

Her letters 42, 46, 148-57, 186 Austen Papers, The 106 n. Austen, Philadelphia (Mrs Han­

cock) 9, 25, 68, 296 Austen-Leigh, James Edward

(nephew) 72, 74, 160, 164, 176, 185 (Memoir), 307, 308-9, 331

Austen-Leigh, Mary Augusta 58n., 71

Austen-Leigh, William and Richard Arthur 9 (Life), 10, 69, 92, 187, 309

Babb, HowardS. xi, 97, 316 Barrett, E. S. (The Heroine) 20,

68n., 77, 79 Bakewell 244 Basingstoke 4, 10, 12, 13, 49 Bath 3,11,12-13,14,15,16,29,

30, 37,44,49,78, 107,133, 153, 163, 171, 195-200

'beautifull Cassandra, The', 53, 55

Bentley (near Alton) 8, 23 Bigg, Alethea 154 Bigg, Elizabeth (Mrs Heathcote)

11 n., 23, 150

Index 337

Bigg Wither, Harris 14, 35 Blaise Castle 80, 208 Dolton, Lord 12 Donomi, Joseph 208 Dookham. See Great Bookham Booth, Wayne C. 315 Doswell, James 159, 172 Dowen, Elizabeth 123 Box Hill 20, 163, 208, 219, 238 Brabourne, Lord 148, 186, 307,

309, 331 Bradbrook, F. W. 307, 311, 314 Bradbury, Malcolm 316 Bradley, A. C. 99, 186, 314 Brewer, Reuben A. 315 Bridges, Robert 187 Brighton 26, 30, 210 Broadwood, John 250 Bromley, Elizabeth Nugent 321 Bronte, Charlotte 136, 180, 184,

187, 188 Drowning, Elizabeth Barrett 188 Brydges, Sir Egerton 137,311,312 Burke, Edmund 318 Burke, Mrs Henry C. 325 Durney, Fanny (Madame d'Ar-

blay) 37, 95, 103, 136, 138, 160,167-71, 182,238,311; Camilla 167,168,169,170-171,238;Cecilia92, 100,167, 168, 169, 170; Evelina 56, 79, 92, 167-8, 169, 170; The Wanderer 167, 171

Burns, Robert 17 4 Burroway, Janet 105 n. Byron, Lord 148, 174

Canterbury 7, 16, 156 card games 43-4 Carlyle, Jane Welsh 148, 183 Carlyle, Thomas 183 carriages (private) 28-9 Catharine 10, 12, 53, 65-8, 69 Cawley, Mrs 8 Cecil, Lord David 314, 315 Chapman, R. W. xi-xii, 24 n.,

84, 86, 146n., 180n., 187,

237, 267, 306, 307, 308, 309, 322

Charde, Mr 11 Chatsworth 267 Chawton 7, 17, 19, 20, 23, 31,

36, 76, 84, 104, 114, 151, 310; Chawton Cottage 17-18; Chawton House 16, 18, 19, 256

Cheltenham 22, 30, 123 Chesterton, G. K. 24, 56, 187 Church of England, the 38-9,

104-5, 107-8 Churchill, (Sir) Winston 24 Clarke, Rev. James Stanier 21-2,

114, 136, 138-9, 326 Clifton 16, 30, 214 Cobham 20, 238 Coleridge, Sara 182 'Collection of Letters, A' 53, 60 Colman, George (the Elder) 165 Compton-Burnett, Ivy 178 Cooke, Mary 150, 326 Cooke, Rev. Samuel 4, 15, 20,

237-8 Cooper, Jane 3-4, 8, 10, 12

(Lady Williams), 53, 60 Corunna 17, 26 Cottesbrooke 102, 253 country labourer, the 31, 37 Cowper, William 16, 34, 86,

108, 110, 117, 148, 151-2, 174-6

Crabbe, George 19-20, 39, 104, 110, 154, 176-7, 270

Craik, W. A. 312, 316 Craven, Lord 11 Crewkerne 275, 284 Crosby, Richard 76, 77

dancing 48-9 Dawlish 14, 223 de Feuillide, Elizabeth (m. Henry

Austen) 7, 9, 10, 11-12, 13, 14, 19, 26, 53, 106, 153, 310, 323

de Stael, Madame 238

Index

Deane 6, 7, 10; Deane Gate 4; Deane House 11 n., 12

Dodsley, Robert (Collection of Poems) 174

Donoghue, Denis 315 Donohue, J. W. 315 Dorchester, Lady 12 Dorking 15, 208, 219 Draffen, R. A. 315 dress 45-7 Duckworth, A. M. 315, 317 Duffy, J. M. 315, 316 duelling 37 Duncan-Jones, E. E. 55 n.,

165nn.

Ebden, F. L. xi, 171 n. Edge, Charles, E. xi, 102 n. Edgeworth, Maria 37, 86,102-3,

153, 164, 181; Belinda 76, 103, 164; Patronage 103; 'Vivian' 37, 102-3

education 40-1, 100, 105, 107-9, 145

Egerton, Thomas {publisher) 21, 180

Elinor and Marianne 11, 69, 84, 85

Eliot, George 36, 57, 78, 91, 119, 136, 184, 187

Elizabeth, Queen 58, 59, 60, 161, 267

Elsbree, Langdon 314 Emden, C. S. 79 n. Emerson, Ralph Waldo 187 Emma 20, 21, 27, 77, 78, 113,

114-22, 139, 180, 184, 315

enclosures 31 engagements and marriage 49-

51 'Evelyn' 53, 63-4, 162, 164 Exeter Exchange (London) 248

Farrer, Reginald 187, 314 Ferrier, Susan 182 Fielding, Henry 39, 164, 329

First Impressions. See Pride and Prejudice

fore-edge painting 33 Forster, E. M. 144, 147, 151 Fowle, Thomas 11, 310 franking of letters 30 'Frederic and Elfrida' 53-4 French Revolution, the 10, 24,

26, 35 furniture 32

Garrick, David 9, 258 Garrod, H. W. 25 Gibraltar 15, 234 Gifford, William 181 Gilpin, William 32, 33, 40, 63,

86, 146, 160-3, 170, 172, 311

Godmersham 3, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 19,20,31, 149,151, 176, 253, 310, 326

Godwinism 26 Goldsmith, Oliver 58 n., 59 Gomme, Andor 316 Goodnestone 7, 11, 15, 156 Gonneratne, Yasmine 318 Gordon Riots (1780) 245 Gothic fiction 63, 77, 139, 172-

3, 181 governess, the 40, 45 Great Bookham 4, 15, 17, 20, 31,

150,219,237,238,280 Greene, Donald J. 312 Grey of Fallodon, Viscount 135,

187

Hackwood House 12 Harding, D. W. 81, 314, 317 Hardy, Thomas 24, 119, 136, 188 Harmsel, Henrietta Ten 318 Harrison, Frederic 24, 188 Harvey, W. J. 315 Hastings, "\Varren 6, 9, 10-11,

25-6 'hedgerow' (in Hampshire) 4,

102 'Henry and Eliza' 55

Index 339

Hill, Constance 186, 309, 313 'History of England, The' 27,

53, 57-60, 161 Hogan, Charles Beecher 180 n. Holford, Mrs M. (First Impres-

sions) 92 horticulture 31-2, 45 Hough, Graham 315 Howells, W. D. 187 Hubback, J. H. and E. C. 236,

307, 309 Hurstbourne House 12, 13, 149

Ibthorp 10, 13, 14 Ilchester 13 'improvements' 33-5, 63, 103,

162n., 278, 280, 317 Isle of Wight 240, 269

'Jack and Alice' 54-5 Jack, Ian 314 James, Henry 144, 147, 187-8 Jane Austen Society, the 22 n.,

194, 255, 312 Jenkins, Elizabeth 310, 312 Johnson, R. Brimley 168 Johnson, Samuel 71, 86, 100,

138n., 152, 158-60, 172, 174, 178, 311

Kaye-Smith, Sheila 318-19 Kean, Edmund 20 Kempshott House 12, 114 Kennedy, Margaret 319 Kettle, Arnold 317 Kintbury 11, 14, 22, 31, 194,

291 Knight, Edward and George

(nephews) 16-17, 153 Knight, Fanny (niece) 16, 19,

35, 53, 114, 154, 155, 156, 326, 331

Knight, Marianne (niece) 20 Knight, R. P. (The Landscape)

34, 162n. Knight, Mrs Thomas 7, 12, 16,

19, 58

Knight, William (nephew) 23 Knightly, Mr 237

Lady Susan 11, 61, 68-72, 85, 159, 310, 318, 321, 323

Lamb, Charles 63, 148, 149, 183 landed gentry 31-2 landscape gardening 33-5, 63 Lascelles, Mary 159n., 175,316,

320 Laski, Marghanita 311 Lawrence, D. H. 188, 317 Leatherhead 237, 238 Leavis, F. R. 314 Lea vis, Q. D. 323 n. Lefroy, Mrs (Anne) 11, 15, 21 n.,

58, 159, 307-8, 312 Lefroy, Benjamin 21 Lefroy, Mrs Benjamin (Anna,

d. of James Austen) xii, 10, 18,21,22,53,61,114,137, 154, 155, 168, 308

Lefroy, Tom 11 Leigh Perrot, Mr and Mrs

James 3, 11, 13, 14, 15, 200, 280

Leigh, Theophilus (Master of Balliol) 3, 4

Leigh, Thomas (Mrs Austen's father) 3

Lennox, Mrs (The Female Quixote) 79, 311

Lerner, Laurence 316 'Lesley Castle' 53, 61-2, 65, 69,

71, 72, 159, 161 letters 30 Leven, Lord and Lady 153 Levine, J. A. 71 n., 159 n. Lewes, George Henry 184, 185 Lewis, C. S. 314 libraries, circulating 45; private

33 Liddell, Robert 320 Lister, Thomas Henry 183 Litz, A. Walton 86n., 159n.,

320 Lloyd, Eliza 11

Index

Lloyd, Martha 10, 13, 15, 16, 17,23, 53, 55, 71, 93,194

Lloyd, Mary (Mrs James Austen) 10, 11, 1~ 1~23, 53,71

Lodge, David 307, 315 Loiterer, The 7, 56, 87n. London 7, 13, 16, 19, 20, 29,

30, 44, 49, 84, 107-8, 110, 114, 123, 151, 155, 244-51

Longfellow, H. W. 187 'Love and Friendship' 10, 53,

54,55-7,60,64,65,72, 79, 81-2,159,170,172-3,321

Lovers' Vows 40, 107 Lyme (Regis) 14, 29, 30, 128,

133, 153, 253 Lynd, Robert 146 Lytton, Bulwer 185

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 183

Mackenzie, Henry 165-6 n., 295, 329

mail 4, 29-30 Mansell, Darrel 163 n., 320 Manif,:eld Park 9, 10, 17, 19, 20,

21, 24, 27, 38, 41, 68, 78, 89, 91, 99, 101-13, 114, 116, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 137, 140, 141, 176-7, 179, 180, 181, 315

Manydown 11, 12, 14, 150, 154 Martineau, Harriet 183 Mary Queen of Scots 58, 59, 60,

161 materialism and mercenary­

mindedness 35, 71-2, 81-2, 89, 109, 112, 141-2

McKillop, A. D. 168 n., 172, 315

meals (middle- and upper-class) 42-3

medical practitioners 39-40 Mews, Hazel 313 Meynell, Alice 186 Middleton, Lord 255 Milbanke, Annabella 181

Mirror, The 295, 329 Mitford, Miss 181 Mitton, G. E. 313 Moler, K. L. 86n., 321 Moore, George 88, 91 Moore, Sir John 8, 17, 26, 150,

155 More, Hannah 68, 321 Mudrick, Marvin 317, 321-2 Muir, Edwin 147, 314 Murray, John 21, 180, 181

Napoleonic War, the 8, 14, 15, 24,25,26,27,36,104, 107, 136-7,154-5

Nelson, Admiral 8, 15, 26 Newman, John 188 Northanger Abbey (Susan) 12,

14, 22, 23, 30, 57, 76-83, 121, 166, 167, 170, 173, 315, 325 (title)

Nottingham (and the 12th Light Dragoons) 262

Oliphant, Mrs 185 ordination (and Manifi'eld Park)

101-2, 104-5, 310 'out' (unchaperoned) 47-8 Overton 7 Oxford 3, 7, 8, 41, 264

Page, Norman 314, 322 Peacock, T. L. 56, 273 Perrot, James Leigh. See Leigh

Perrot Persuasion 14, 21, 22, 23, 24,

30, 78,91, 102,123-9,137, 141, 150-1, 171, 174, 181, 182, 307, 309, 316

Petty France 268-9 Phillipps, K. C. 322 . 'picturesque', the 32, 33-5, 63,

86,160-3,263 'Plan of a Novel' 21-2, 139,

326-8 Pollock, Sir William Frederick

184

Index

poor, the (rural). See the country labourer

Pope, Alexander 33, 178 Portsmouth 8, 17, 23, 26-7, 31,

109-10,163,269-70 Portsmouth, Lord 61 12 Pride and Prejudice 11, 12, 19,

24,26, 74,76,92-100,116, 137, 145, 156, 159, 181, 315

Prince Regent (afterwards George IV) 21, 114

Radcliffe, Mrs Ann 32, 77, 79, 80, 81, 141, 172-3; The Castles of Athlin and Dun­hayne 172-3; A Sicilian Romance 80, 173; The Romance of the Forest 80, 173; The Mysteries of Udolpho 77, 80, 85-6, 86, 92, 173

Ramsgate 14, 16, 26, 133, 273 Ranelagh Gardens 244 Reading (Abbey School) 8 recreations 43-4, 45, 47-8 Repton, Humphrey 33-5,

162n., 273, 274, 317 Richard (unpopularity of the

name) 257-8, 260 Richard III 58, 258, 279 Richardson, Samuel 37, 55n.,

89,93,95,164-7,184,311, 318, 329

roads and travel 4, 28-30; conveyance of goods 29

Roche, Mrs R. M. 86 Rousseauism 86n., 87, 110 Rowling 7, 10, 11

Sadleir, Michael 77 n. St Domingo, battle of 15, 26,

288 Saintsbury, George 186 Sanditon 22, 30, 56, 83, 130-4,

141, 156, 165-6, 174-5 Schorer, Mark 317

Scott, (Sir) Walter 23, 36, 84, 174,181-2

'Scraps' 53, 203 seaside resorts 30, 130, 133 Sense and Sensibility 11, 12, 19,

76,84-91,93,94,145,170-171, 315

Shakespeare, William 44, 59, 69-70, 81, 124, 129, 178-9, 182, 183, 184, 185

Shannon, E. F. 315 Sheridan, R. D. 9, 37, 44, 54,

60, 165n., 178, 181 Sidmouth 14 Simon, Irene 188 n. Simpson, Richard 186 slave-trade, the 8, 27, 104, 111 Smith, Charlotte 59, 79, 135-

136n., 171-2 Sorrows of Werter, The 57, 172 Southam, D. C. 53, 59 n., 69,

165 n., 180 n., 306, 314, 323 Southampton 8, 10, 16, 17, 26,

49, 150, 152, 156 Southey, Robert 182 spas 30, 133 Stern, G. B. 318-19 Steventon 3, 4-7, 17, 19, 22, 31,

36, 114, 148, 153, 158, 307-8; the rectory xii, 4, 6; departure from 13; private theatricals at 9, 106, 177-8

Stone, Donald 314 Stoneleigh 3, 16 Susan. See Northanger Abbey

Tanner, Tony 315 Tattersall's 251 Taunton 13, 280 Teignmouth 14 Tennyson, Alfred (Lord) 148,

185, 253 theatre, the 20, 44, 258; private

theatricals 106, (at Steven­ton) 9, 106, (Mansfield Park) 44, 106, ('Vivian') 103

542 Index

Thomson, C. L. 295, 323 'three Sisters, The' 53, 62-3 Tompkins, J. M. S. 86 trade and class distinction 35-6 Trafalgar, battle of 8, 15, 26,

154, 333 Treaty of Amiens 14, 93-4 Tunbridge We1ls 30, 168, 171,

284 Twain, Mark 187

Volume the First 52-5, 62-31 306 Volume the Second 52, 53, 55-62,

306 Volume the Third 52, 53, 63-8,

306

Walkley, A. B. 74 Walpole, Horace 58, 99 Walter, Philadelphia (cousin)

106 Watsons, The 12, 15, 62, 72-5,

78, 156, 309

Watt, Ian 314, 315 weddings 50-1 W edgwood china 32 West, Jane 86 West, Rebecca 189 Weymouth 14, 30, 290 Whately, Richard 138 n., 182,

183 Wickham 291 Williams, Thomas (Captain) 8,

10, (Admiral Sir) 20, 133 Winchester 4, 11, 16, 17, 23 women and marriage 49-50, 62,

68, 75, 90, 99-100, 111, 142, 156

Woolf, Virginia 123, 141, 177, 314

Wordsworth, William 36, 49, 85-6, 141, 161, 182-3, 188

Wright, A. H. 323-4

Zietlow P. N. 316