INDEX

Adams, Oscar, on Jane Austen, [89]

Addison, Joseph, [55]

"Allen, Mr.," [187]

"——, Mrs.," [100]

Alphonsine, [61]

Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, [170]

Antiquary, The, [51]

Apothecaries, [114]

Arc, Joan of, [169]

Aspasia, [158]

Austen, Cassandra, [31], [63], [79], [100], [212]

——, Edward (see Knight), [41], [214], [223], [238]

——, The Rev. George, [152], [223], [241]

——, Henry, [22], [243], [251]

——, Jane, freshness of her work, [14]; her aim, [18], [68]; at home, [22]; her nature, [24-30]; views on love, [32]; her admirers, [35-37], [163]; her limited appeal, [43]; on novels, [50-54]; favourite authors, [56-60]; criticism of niece's work, [63-64]; limitations of subject, [16-19], [65], [112], [192], [204]; literary style, [66-70], [82-85]; choice of names, [74]; in London, [76], [242]; views of life, [41], [87], [217]; as humourist, [89], [171-172]; a "forbidding" writer, [89]; Mr. Goldwin Smith on her novels, [91]; contrasted with Peacock, [92-94]; her letters, [23], [31], [99], [121], [211-223]; declines to meet Madame de Staël, [109]; her charities, [116-117]; at balls and dances, [123-128]; Dr. Whately on her work, [135], [161], [181], [189]; views of marriage, [106], [138-140]; influenced by current philosophy, [143-149]; her fine taste, [152]; her opinion of Lady Susan, [152]; her heroines, [21], [32-33], [138-163]; their relations, [183]; her avoidance of dogmatism, [149], [193]; love for her own creations, [202]; economy of description, [205], [227], [231]; on dress, [210-219]; food, [219-224]; places—Bath, [152], [214], [240]; Chawton, [22], [153], [237]; Godmersham, [41], [223], [238]; London, [76], [242]; Lyme Regis, [160], [234-236]; Southampton, [241]; Steventon, [22], [153], [214], [234]; her literary influence, [247-250]

Austen, Mrs., [25], [29], [222], [223]

Balzac, [17], [108], [201], [209], [233]

"Barton," [102]

"Bates, Miss," [175], [219], [221]

Bath, [152], [153], [214], [240]

Batilliat, Marcel, [57]

Bazin, René, [57]

Beaconsfield, Lord, [108]

"Bellaston, Lady," [157]

"Bellona" (Richard Feverel), [157]

"Bennet, Elizabeth," [79], [93], [203], [216]

"——, Jane," [42], [203]

"——, Lydia," [43], [141], [229]

"——, Mr.," [72], [90], [229]

"——, Mrs.," [72], [90], [100]

"Bertram, Edmund," [40], [70], [155]

"——, Lady," [131]

"——, Maria," [18], [83]

"——, Sir Thomas," [64], [130]

"Bingleys, The," [115], [129]

Bond, John, [116]

Boswell, James, [58]

Boulangeries (dance), [129]

"Bourgh, Lady Catherine de," [118], [175]

Box Hill, picnic at, [175]

Brabourne, Lord, [252]

"Brandon, Colonel," [141-144]

Brock, C. E., [209]

Brontë, Charlotte, [19], [85], [195]

Barney, Frances, [49], [53], [60], [86], [88]

——, Sarah, [61]

Byron, Lord, [121]

Cage, Mrs., [100]

Calprenède, [55]

Cambridge Observer, [83]

"Camper, Lady," [205]

Candide, [147]

Carlton House, [65], [165]

"Chainmail, Mr.," [93]

Charlet, [243]

Châtelet, Madame du, [102], [158]

Chawton, [22], [153], [237]

Chesterfield, Lord, [78]

Church of England, [189-191]

"Churchill, Frank," [37], [104], [127], [231]

Chute, William, [37]

Cibber, Colley, [77]

Clandestine Marriage, [77]

Clarentine, [61]

Clarissa, [50]

"Clay, Mrs.," [18]

Coleridge, [19], [194]

"Coles, The," [129]

"Collins, Mr.," [71], [93], [164], [192], [229]

Colonies, American, [13]

Connoisseur, The, [56]

Consumption, [218]

Cork Street, [77]

"Cormon, Rose," [18]

Corsair, The, [215]

"Courcy, Reginald de," [150]

Cowper, William, [29], [57], [223]

Crabbe, George, [56]

"Crawford, Henry," [18], [83]

"——, Mary," [40], [160]

Critic, an American, [45]

Croker, John Wilson, [198]

Crotchet Castle, [93]

Curie, Madame, [170]

Cuvier, [193]

"Dalrymples, The," [119]

"Darcy, Fitzwilliam," [33], [42], [93], [118], [203]

"——, Georgiana," [67]

Darwin, Erasmus, [193]

"Dashwood, Elinor," [18], [43], [141-148]

"——, Marianne," [79], [141]

"——, Mrs.," [188]

Deism, [193]

Dickens, [219], [233]

Digweed, James, [114], [123]

Disraeli, Isaac, [108]

Dobson, Austin, [253]

Dodsley, Robert, [59-60]

"Dotheboys Hall," [92]

Dowton, William, [77]

Dress, [210-219]

"Dudley, Arabelle," [157]

Duff, Sir M. E. Grant, [148]

Dumas père, [219], [243]

Edgeworth, Maria, [53], [60], [76], [148], [189]

Eliot, George, [85], [169]

"Elliot, Anne," [33], [93], [125], [163], [250]

"——, Sir Walter," [118], [176]

"——, William, [160], [178]

"Elliott, Kirstie," [208]

"Elton, Mr.," [104]

"——, Mrs.," [173], [205]

Emma, [80], [131], [237], [251]

Eugénie Grandet, [108]

"Evelina," [99], [139]

"Eyre, Jane," [16], [195]

"Fagin," [92]

"Fairfax, Jane," [38], [129]

"Ferrars, Edward," [155]

"——, Lucy," [82]

"Feverel, Lucy," [35]

"——, Richard," [35]

"Ffolliot, Dr.," [93]

Fielding, Henry, [14], [154]

"Fischer, Lisbeth," [16]

Food, [219-224]

France, Anatole, [149]

Frénilly, Baron de, on dress, [218]

Galt, John, [76]

"Gardiners, The," [140], [242]

Garrick, [59-60]

Genlis, Madame de, [61]

George III, on genius, [49]

Gifford, William, [165]

Gipsies, [231]

"Gobseck, Esther van," [157]

Godmersham, [41], [223], [238]

"Grandet, Père," [16]

"Grandison, Sir Charles," [205]

Great English Novelists, [247]

Gulliver's Travels, [94]

Guy Mannering, [51]

Hall, Robert, on Miss Edgeworth, [189]

"Hamlet," [181]

Hardy, Thomas, [233]

Hazlitt, William, [165]

Headlong Hall, [94]

Henrietta Street, [242]

"Homespun, Mr.," [225]

Hope, Anthony, [44]

House on the Beach, The, [115]

"Hurst, Mrs.," [216]

Huxley, Thomas, [170]

Hypocrite, The, [77]

Ida of Athens, [62]

Idler, The, [56]

"Jennings, Mrs.," [102], [138], [142]

"Jingle, Alfred," [75]

Johnson, Samuel, [56], [58]

"Jones, Tom," [155], [213]

Jonson, Ben, [86]

Kean, Edmund, [77]

"Kew, Lady," [16]

Knatchbull, Lady, see Knight, Fanny

Knight, Edward (Austen), [41], [214], [223], [238]

——, Fanny, [40], [104], [252]

"Knightley, George," [70], [155], [181]

Lady Susan, [87], [137], [149-152], [252]

Lamb, Charles, [13]

Landor, Walter Savage, [13], [198]

Lang, Andrew, [147]

Langton, Bennet, [58]

La Terre qui meurt, [57]

La Vendée aux Genêts, [57]

Lefroy, Thomas, [35-36], [213]

Leigh, J. E. Austen, [23], [251], [252]

Letters of Jane Austen, [252]

Lewes, G. H., [85]

Liston, John, [77]

Lloyd, Martha, [67]

Lockhart, William, his "Life of Scott," [166]

Lombroso, [147]

London, [76], [242]

Lounger, The, [56]

Love, Jane Austen's views on, [32]

"Lucas, Charlotte," [139]

——, E. V., [253]

"——, Sir William," [114-115]

Lyford, John, [123]

Lyme Regis, [160], [234-236]

Lys dans la Vallée, Le, [157]

Macaulay, [49], [68], [181]

Mackintosh, Sir James, [122]

"Manerville, Natalie de," [19]

Mansfield Park, [44], [137], [165], [186], [237], [251]

Margiana, [61]

Marriage, [106], [138]

Martin, Mrs., her library, [60]

"——, Robert," [113]

"Mascarille," [78]

Mathews, Charles, [77]

"McQueedy, Mr.," [93]

Melincourt, [94]

Meredith, George, [69], [115], [233]

"Middleton, Lady," [187]

"——, Sir John," [79], [102], [119], [205]

"Milestone, Mr.," [93]

"Millamant," [159]

Milton, [21], [194]

"Mirabell," [159]

Mirror, The, [225]

Mitford, Mrs., [104]

"Morland, Catherine," [18], [34], [80], [81], [88], [91], [99], [216], [224], [227]

"——, Mr. and Mrs.," [186]

Murray, John, "The First," [165]

"Musgrove, Louisa," [187], [236]

Names, [74]

"Nanny," [113]

Napoleon on Madame de Staël, [45]

"Nature's Salic Law," [170]

"Newcome, Colonel," [75]

Nightingale, Florence, [169]

Nightmare Abbey, [94], [121]

"Norris, Mrs.," [187]

Northanger Abbey, [44], [53], [87], [151], [210], [240], [251]

"Nostalgie de l'Infini," [148]

Novel, "Plan of," [95]

——, suggestion for, [65]

Novelists, defence of, [53]

Novels, [50], [60-62]

——, French, [55], [57]

O'Neill, Miss, [77]

"Orange, Robert," [160]

Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The, [157]

Osborne, Dorothy, [31], [33], [55], [163]

"——, Lord," [113]

——, Mr., on passions, [163]

Owenson, Miss, [62]

Pamela, [50]

"Patterne, Sir Willoughby," [205]

Peacock, Thomas Love, [92-94]

"Pecksniff," [16]

"Pemberley," [42]

Persuasion, [125], [137], [151], [186], [237], [240], [251]

Phelps, W. L., [34]

Pickwick Papers, [240]

Picnics, [175], [224]

"Pierrette," [18]

Plutocrats, [41]

Plymley Letters, [78]

"Pons, Sylvain," [75]

Portsmouth, [66], [184], [233]

Poverty, [40]

Powlett, Charles, [36], [101]

Précieuses ridicules, [78]

"Price, Fanny," [18], [34], [184]

Pride and Prejudice, [44], [62], [85], [129], [136], [186], [237], [251]

Property, landed, [41-42]

"Proudie, Mrs.," [205]

Quarterly Review, [135], [162], [165]

Queensberry, Duke of, [191]

Quentin Durward, [139]

"Quilp," [16]

Radcliffe, Mrs., [50], [52], [60], [86]

Rambler, The, [56]

"Ravenswood Tower," [92]

Realism, [205]

Regent, The, [153], [165]

Religion, [189]

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [59]

"——, Mrs.," [112]

Richardson, Samuel, [50], [59], [60]

"Rigby, Mr.," [198]

Rivals, The, [153]

"Rochefide, Beatrix de," [19]

"Rushworth, Maria," [18]

"Rushworth, Mr.," [83]

"Russell, Lady," [163], [183], [205]

Saintsbury, George, [90], [141], [253]

Sand, George, [108], [169]

Sappho, [249]

Saxe-Coburg family, [65]

Scharlieb, Mrs., [170]

School for Saints, The, [160]

Scott, Sir Walter, [16], [42], [51], [67], [76], [209]

——, Life of, [166]

Scudéri, Mademoiselle de, [55]

"Scythrop," [93]

"Sedley, Jos," [92]

Self-control, [61]

Selwyn, George, [191]

Sense and Sensibility, [44], [62], [82], [136], [143], [202], [242]

Shakespeare, [84-85], [181]

Shelley, [121]

Sheridan, [130], [153]

"Shirley," [92]

Sir Charles Grandison, [50]

Smith, Goldwin, [91], [253]

"——, Harriet," [103], [231]

——, James, [13]

——, Sydney, [78]

Socialists, [41]

Sondes, Lady, [106]

Southampton, [241]

Spectator, The, [53-55]

Staël, Madame de, [45], [109-111]

Steele, Richard, [55]

Stephen, Leslie, [235]

Stephens, Miss, [77]

Steventon, [22], [153], [214], [234]

"Steyne, Lord," [16]

Surville, Madame de, [201]

Swift, Jonathan, [149], [220]

Tamaris, [108]

Tartuffe, [77]

Tatler, The, [56]

Temple, Sir William, [33], [55]

Tennyson, [26], [236]

Thackeray, [16], [28], [94]

Theatricals at the Bertrams', [131]

Thomson, Hugh, [209], [232]

"Thorpe, John," [51]

"Tilney, General," [187], [224]

"——, Henry," [18], [70], [80], [88], [91], [93], [216], [224], [225]

"Tinman, Martin," [115]

Tom Jones, [157]

"Tulliver, Mr.," [205]

Turner, J. M. W., [13]

"Uppercross," dancing at, [125]

Vallière, Louise de la, [158]

"Vandenesse, Felix de," [201]

"Vautrin," [92]

Vendée, La, [57]

Venetia, [121]

Ventilation, Mr. Woodhouse on, [127]

"Vernon, Lady Susan," [106]

Verrall, A. W., on text of Jane Austen's novels, [83]

Village, The, [56]

Villiers, Barbara, [158]

Voltaire, [147], [158]

Waltz, [129-131]

Warner, Dr., [191]

Watsons, The, [87], [137], [152], [252]

Waverley, [51], [52]

Weir of Hermiston, [208]

"Wentworth, Frederick," [125], [155], [188], [251]

"Western, Sophia," [142], [155]

"——, Squire," [154]

"Weston, Mr.," [115]

"——, Mrs.," [84], [103], [181]

Whately, Archbishop, [135], [161], [181], [189]

"Wickham," [141]

"Williams, Miss," [143]

"Willoughby, John," [18], [79], [141-146]

Wine, [221]

"Woodhouse, Emma," [33], [37], [64], [93], [103], [181], [221]

"——, Mr.," [172], [174], [221]

World, The, [56]

Wyndham, Mr., [104]

Zola, [66]

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