The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

by Myra Reynolds

[316] Pope, Alexander: Works (Elwin and Courthope), vol. VII, p. 177.

[317] Pope, Alexander: Works (Elwin and Courthope), vol. VII, p. 191; vol. III, p. 243.

[318] Swift, Jonathan: Works (ed. Scott), vol. XVII, p. 359.

[319] Swift: Works (ed. Scott), vol. XVII, p. 367. Letter to Countess of Suffolk, p. 371.

[320] Ibid., vol. XVII, p. 306.

[321] Ibid., vol. XVII, p. 342.

[322] Ibid., vol. XVII, p. 353.

[323] Ibid., vol. XVIII, p. 168.

[324] Swift: Works: (ed. Scott), vol. XVIII, p. 147.

[325] In 1754, at a sale of 150 pictures belonging to Dr. Mead, a picture of "Mrs. Barber the poetess, in Water Colours," brought only 1l. 9s., the next lowest price paid for any picture. (Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. II, p. 107.) Mrs. Barber suffered from severe attacks of gout and she had been one of Dr. Mead's patients.