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.html#Page_251" class="pginternal">251;
  • cancelled chapter of Persuasion in the Memoir, 315.
  • Baillie, Joanna, 172.
  • Balls—
  • Bath, at, 222-225.
  • Country, 119-120.
  • Dances at, 121 (see also Dancing).
  • Dress at, 124-127;
  • masculine, 126.
  • Etiquette of, 121-123.
  • Evelina, account in, 121-123.
  • Formality of, 121.
  • Partners at, 121-123.
  • Bateson, Mary, cited, 238.
  • Bath—
  • Abbey, 219.
  • Assembly Rooms, 220-221.
  • Austens’ removal to, 212-213, 215-218;
  • house in Sydney Place, 219;
  • table of residences, 325.
  • Balls at, 222-225.
  • Characteristics of the town, 219.
  • House-hunting in, 215-218.
  • Nash’s renovation of, 220-221, 247-248.
  • New Guide on, 224.
  • Pump Room, 219-220.
  • Society of, reproduced in Northanger Abbey, 189-190.
  • Besant, Sir Walter, quoted—on eighteenth-century morals, 95;
  • on franking of letters, 113-114;
  • on wigs, 235-236.
  • “Blue-stocking,” origin of epithet, 7.
  • Boothby, Capt. Charles, quoted, 156-157.
  • Brabourne, Lord, family of, 18, 301;
  • cited—on the Coopers, 117-118;
  • on Fanny Knight, 270;
  • quoted—on Godmersham, 251-252, 261.
  • Brasbridge, Joseph, cited, 114.
  • Bridges, Harriet, see Moore.
  • Bridges, Louisa, 148, 149.
  • Bridges, Marianne, 253.
  • BrontË, Charlotte, compared with George Eliot, 100-102;
  • with Jane Austen, 103-104.
  • Brydges, Sir Egerton, on Jane’s appearance, 57.
  • Burnet, Bishop, quoted, 47.
  • Burney, Fanny, works of, 86-87, 97;
  • Macaulay’s criticism of, 164-165;
  • Walpole’s criticism of, 165;
  • lively environment of, 164;
  • cited—on the Court, 305-306.
  • Byron, 173.
  • Cage, Lewis, 148, 149.
  • Camilla, 165.
  • Campbell, Thoma i>French Revolution and Reign of Terror, 50-53.
  • Furniture, 63.
  • Gardening, 71-72.
  • Garrick, David, 161, 291, 292.
  • Gas, 284-285.
  • Geography of the period, 6-7.
  • George III., King, 94, 235, 305-306.
  • Gibson, Mary (Mrs. F. Austen), 256, 258.
  • Gloucester, Duke of, 253.
  • Godmersham—
  • Acquisition of, by Edward Knight, 17, 148.
  • Description of, 251-252.
  • Temple Plantation, 261.
  • Goodnestone, visits to, 253.
  • Gordon, Duchess of (1791), 56.
  • Gosse, Edmund, on eighteenth-century literature, 169.
  • Grosley, M., quoted—on English breakfasts, 66;
  • on wages, 72;
  • on coaching, 157-158;
  • on King George III., 235;
  • on London, 280-281, 283-286;
  • on the stage, 291-292.
  • Hair-dressing, 231, 233-234;
  • feathers, 125, 232, 234, 283;
  • wigs, 235-236, 239;
  • powder, 237-239.
  • Hastings, Warren, 56.
  • Hats and bonnets, 234.
  • Hatton, George, 253.
  • Highwaymen, 158-160.
  • Hill, Constance, cited, 46.
  • Hill, Rowland, 109, 111.
  • Housekeeping, 65.
  • Inchbald, Mrs., 172.
  • India, affairs of, 55-56.
  • Ireland, union of, with England, 55.
  • Jackson, Eleanor (Mrs. H. Austen), 18, 288.
  • Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries—quoted, 92.
  • Johnson, Dr. Samuel, Jane’s partiality for, 58, 169;
  • Fanny Burney influenced by, 164-165;
  • wigs of, 236;
  • otherwise mentioned, 164, 171.
  • Kean, Charles, 294-295.
  • Kemble, 291.
  • Kensington Gardens, 288-289.
  • Kent, Duke of, 307;
  • letter of, tml#Page_81" class="pginternal">81, 95-96, 123, 178-180, 182;
  • Darcy, 179-181;
  • Jane Bingley, 288.
  • Date of, 98.
  • Emma compared with, 308-310.
  • First Impressions the original title of, 99, 176.
  • Improbability in, 187.
  • Opinions on—by Sir W. Scott, 182;
  • by Miss Mitford, 181-182;
  • by Jane Austen, 184-185.
  • Publication of, 276-277.
  • Publisher’s refusal of, 177.
  • Social caste in, 92-93.
  • Otherwise mentioned, 58, 81-82, 124, 128, 145.
  • Prince Regent, Emma dedicated to, 163, 305, 307;
  • librarian of, 304-305;
  • character of, 306-307;
  • home of, 286.
  • Radcliffe, Mrs., 88, 172, 189.
  • Residences of Jane Austen, table of, 325.
  • Roads, state of, 75, 116, 151-154.
  • Rogers, Samuel, Pleasures of Memory published by, 173;
  • omnibus story of, 282;
  • quoted—on novels, 168;
  • on hair-powdering, 239;
  • cited—on head-dresses, 234;
  • on Fox, 247;
  • on executions, 284.
  • Romance, Scott’s plea for, 134-135.
  • Rowling, life at, 148-150.
  • St. Vincent, Battle of, 200.
  • Scott, Sir W., review of Emma by, 134-135, 310-311;
  • authorship of Waverley imputed to, 173;
  • cited—on Pride and Prejudice, 182.
  • Secker, Archbishop, cited, 35, 38.
  • Sedan chairs, 282-283.
  • Self Control, opinions on, 167-168.
  • Selwyn, George, cited, 283-284.
  • Sense and Sensibility—
  • Anonymous issue of, 163.
  • Characters of—children, 24-26;
  • Elinor, 136;
  • male characters, 86-187;
  • minor characters, 188.
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