NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1.] Walter Allen, The English Novel (New York, 1968), p. 4.
[2.] Advertised in the Term Catalogues, Trinity Term, 1693 (II, 466); Wing L1784, L1785.
[3.] It is listed in Harold C. Binkley, "Letter Writing in English Literature" (unpublished Harvard dissertation, 1923).
[4.] They included Familiar Letters [of] Rochester (2 vols., 1697), Familiar and Courtly Letters [of] Voiture (2 vols., 1700), A Pacquet from Will's (2nd ed., 1705), The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown (2-4 vols., 1707—), and The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (1710). Briscoe was not in every case the printer of the first edition.
[5.] "A Cologne. Chez *****. MDCXCV." A copy of the volume is in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal in Paris.
[6.] See DNB, s. v. "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "Catharine Trotter, the First of the Bluestockings," Fortnightly Review, N. S., No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "Catherine Trotter—'the Scots Sappho,'" Scots Magazine, XXXIII (1940), 305-314. The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's The Works of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn (2 vols., 1751), including letters and a prefatory biography.
[7.] The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society's Publication No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by Lucyle Hook.
[8.] Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B. Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," MP, XXXIII (1935-36), 270-271, for further details.
[9.] The Rise of the Novel (London, 1957), Chapter I.