FOOTNOTES:
[67] Jane Austen must have had a partiality for alliteration.
[68] In “Mansfield Park” it would seem as if Jane Austen impartially afforded a glimpse in Admiral Crawford and Lieutenant Price—though, to be sure, the last was only a lieutenant of marines—of the dark side of the members of the naval profession, whose bright side she illustrated, con amore, in William Price and in the naval officers in “Persuasion.”
[69] Children and animals are as much in the background in Jane Austen’s novels as they were in the society of her day.
