[ [10] I, 153. Ernest A. Baker makes a similar statement (The History of the English Novel [1937], III, 46). With respect to the influence of The Notorious Impostor on Mrs. Eliza Haywood, he should have cited Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)—the very book praised by Captain Minikin as "worth reading" in Ferdinand Count Fathom (Chap. XXXIX).
THE
Notorious Impostor,
Or the History of the LIFE of
William Morrell,
ALIAS
BOWYER,
Sometime of Banbury, Chirurgeon.
Who lately personated Humphrey Wickham of Swackly, in
the County of Oxon, Esquire, at a Bakers House in
the Strand, where he Died the third of Jan. 169-1/2