56. JL 11, p.18
57. Ibid, p.513
58. Quoted in Richard Holmes, Shelley: The Pursuit, p.340
59. Alexander d’Arblay, ‘87 miscellaneous holographs’, MS Berg, op. cit.
60. JL 11, p.262
61. Ibid, p.314
62. Ibid, p.324
63. Ibid, p.315
64. Marianne Francis to Charlotte Barrett, MS Berg, quoted in JL 12, p.672n
65. JL 11, p.547
66. JL 12, p.836
67. Julia Barrett to Charlotte Burney Francis Broome, 31 October–1 November 1826, MS Barrett, Egerton 3700A, quoted in JL 12, p.672n
68. JL 12, p.361n
69. MS Berg, quoted in ibid, p.681n
70. MS Barrett, quoted in Hemlow, p.443
71. Quoted in R. Ellis Roberts, Samuel Rogers and his Circle (1910), p.172
72. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, op. cit., entry for 18 November 1826
73. See JL 12, pp.630–1.
74. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, op. cit., p.241
75. JL 12, p.700
76. Ibid, p.702
77. Ibid, p.700
78. Ibid, p.764
79. Ibid, p.766
80. Grau, op. cit., p.66
81. Ibid, p.139
82. Mem 1, p.ix
83. Mem 3, p.434
84. Macaulay, Literary Essays, op. cit., p.546
85. Mem 1, pp.67–8
86. Macaulay, Literary Essays, op. cit., p.593
87. JL 12, p.763
88. See Mem 3, p.361; Lonsdale, p.451
90. For an account of their contentious relationship see E.S. de Beer, ‘Macaulay and Croker’, Review of English Studies vol. 10, no. 40, pp.389–97.
91. JL 12, p.840n
92. P. Cunningham, Handbook of London (1850), p.219
93. JL 12, p.842
94. MS Berg
95. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, op. cit, p.392
96. MS Barrett, Egerton 3701A
97. JL 12, p.863
98. Ibid, p.864
99. For what little is known of her background, see ibid, p.864n
100. MS Barrett, Egerton 3702A
101. JL 12, p.873
102. MS Berg
103. MS Berg, quoted in JL 12, p.886n
104. MS Barrett, Egerton 3702A
105. Cornelia Cambridge to Charlotte Barrett, 21–3 January 1837, MS Barrett, Egerton 3705
106. JL 12, p.917
107. Quoted in Hemlow, p.483
108. DL 6, p.415
109. JL 12, p.954
110. Ibid, p.935
111. MS Barrett, quoted in Hemlow, p.482
112. JL 12, p.921
113. Ibid, pp.951, 950
114. Ibid, p.980
115. Hemlow, p.491
POST MORTEM
1. Henry Crabb Robinson, Diaries, 23 May 1842, quoted in The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, op. cit., p.459
2. Anonymous review in the Athenaeum, April 1842
3. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, op. cit., p.463
4. Mem 2, p.143
5. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The British Novelists vol. 38 (1810)
1. DL 3, p.414
2. The History of the Trial of Warren Hastings Esquire, late Governor-General of Bengal, Before the High Court of Parliament in Westminster-Hall, 1796
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