[4] J. Ireland and J. Nichols, Hogarth's Works, Second Series, 31, note. "Mrs. Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless was in MS entitled Betsy Careless; but, from the infamy at that time annexed to the name, had a new baptism." The "inimitable Betsy Careless" is sufficiently immortalized in Fielding's Amelia, in Mrs. Charke's Life, and in Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode, Plate III.
[5] Austin Dobson, Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Third Series, 99.
[6] "There were no plays, no operas, no masquerades, no balls, no publick shews, except at the Little Theatre in the Hay Market, then known by the name of F——g's scandal shop, because he frequently exhibited there certain drolls, or, more properly, invectives against the ministry; in doing which it appears extremely probable that he had two views; the one to get money, which he very much wanted, from such as delighted in low humour, and could not distinguish true satire from scurrility; and the other, in the hope of having some post given him by those he had abused, in order to silence his dramatick talent. But it is not my business to point either the merit of that gentleman's performances, or the motives he had for writing them, as the town is perfectly acquainted both with his abilities and success, and has since seen him, with astonishment, wriggle himself into favour, by pretending to cajole those he had not the power to intimidate." The Novelist's Magazine, XIII, 23. Quoted by Austin Dobson, Op. cit., 100.
[7] Dedication of The Fatal Secret.
[8] The Novelist's Magazine, XIII, 106. Quoted by W. Forsyth, Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century (1871), 211.
[9] W. Raleigh, The English Novel (Fifth edition, 1910), 139.
[10] J.C. Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, edited by H. Wilson, II, 568.
[11] Monthly Review, V, 393, October, 1751.
[12] Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 392.
[13] Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 457.