[5] See [p. 101].

[6] Lord Melbourne died 24th November 1848.

[7] See [p. 40].

[8] The correspondence is printed in C. Kegan Paul’s Life of William Godwin.

[9] She told Lady Morgan she loved him chiefly because he stood by her when no one else did.

[10] Lady Melton in Dr. Lindsay; Lady Clara in Lionel Hastings; Lady Bellenden in Greville.

[11] 2nd August 1826.

[12] Disraeli describes Lady Caroline as Lady Monteagle in Venetia, and Mrs. Humphry Ward very skilfully uses Lady Caroline’s career as the motive of her novel, The Marriage of William Ashe.

[13] Printed in A. H. Markham’s Northward Ho!, 1879.

[14] He was under eight years old, and Miranda herself was barely nine.