Memoir of Jane Austen Part 13
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{83} See Wharton's note to Johnson and Steevens' Shakspeare.
{102} This mahogany desk, which has done good service to the public, is now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen.
{107} At this time, February 1813, 'Mansfield Park' was nearly finished.
{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a school in London.
{117} See Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 215.
{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any just claim to. She knew more than her mother tongue, for she knew a good deal of French and a little of Italian.
{126} Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 53.
{130} This must have been 'Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.'
{136a} A greater genius than my aunt shared with her the imputation of being _commonplace_. Lockhart, speaking of the low estimation in which Scott's conversational powers were held in the literary and scientific society of Edinburgh, says: 'I think the epithet most in vogue concerning it was "commonplace."' He adds, however, that one of the most eminent of that society was of a different opinion, who, when some glib youth chanced to echo in his hearing the consolatory tenet of local mediocrity, answered quietly, "I have the misfortune to think differently from you--in my humble opinion Walter Scott's sense is a still more wonderful thing than his genius."--Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vol. iv. chap. v.
{136b} The late Mr. R. H. Cheney.
{140} Lockhart had supposed that this article had been written by Scott, because it exactly accorded with the opinions which Scott had often been heard to express, but he learned afterwards that it had been written by Whately; and Lockhart, who became the Editor of the Quarterly, must have had the means of knowing the truth. (See Lockhart's _Life of Sir Walter Scott_, vol. v. p. 158.) I remember that, at the time when the review came out, it was reported in Oxford that Whately had written the article at the request of the lady whom he afterwards married.
{142} In transcribing this pa.s.sage I have taken the liberty so far to correct it as to spell her name properly with an 'e.'
{145} Incidentally she had received high praise in Lord Macaulay's Review of Madame D'Arblay's Works in the 'Edinburgh.'
{146} _Life of Sir J. Mackintosh_, vol. ii. p. 472.
{149} Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vol. vi. chap. vii.
{159} The Fowles, of Kintbury, in Berks.h.i.+re.
{161a} It seems that her young correspondent, after dating from his home, had been so superfluous as to state in his letter that he was returned home, and thus to have drawn on himself this banter.
{161b} The road by which many Winchester boys returned home ran close to Chawton Cottage.
{161c} There was, though it exists no longer, a pond close to Chawton Cottage, at the junction of the Winchester and Gosport roads.
{162} Mr. Digweed, who conveyed the letters to and from Chawton, was the gentleman named in page[22], as renting the old manor-house and the large farm at Steventon.
{167} This cancelled chapter is now printed, in compliance with the requests addressed to me from several quarters.
{169a} Miss Bigg's nephew, the present Sir William Heathcote, of Hursley.
{169b} Her brother Henry, who had been ordained late in life.
{171} The writer was at that time under twelve years old.
{173} It was the corner house in College Street, at the entrance to Commoners.
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