[346] See an article entitled "An early Romantic Novel," by Miss Helen Sard Hughes in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. XV, pp. 564-97. In an unpublished manuscript Miss Hughes has made an elaborate study of Mrs. Collyer in her relation to her times. I am indebted to this study for many suggestions.
[347] See article by Mr. John Louis Haney on "German Literature in England before 1790," in Americana Germanica, vol. IV, pp. 130-54; and an article on "The Influence of Solomon Gesner upon English Literature," by Miss Bertha Reed, in German American Annals, vol. VII (1905), vol. VIII (1906).
[348] Article VI, vol. XI, p. 78.
[349] See article by F. J. Harvey Darton on children's books, in Cambridge History of Literature, vol. XI, chap. XVI.
[350] Hughes, Helen Sard: Mary Mitchell Collyer: A Romanticist of the Mid-Century, chap. III (unpublished manuscript).
[351] In my study, Nature in English Poetry between Pope and Wordsworth, in a brief account of fiction from this point of view, I gave John Buncle as the earliest writer of fiction to make abundant use of nature. It is interesting to find Mrs. Collyer, not only antedating him, but excelling him in accuracy and fullness.
[352] Fielding, Henry: Complete Works (edited by Thomas Roscoe), p. 630.
[353] Familiar Letters between the Characters of David Simple. (1747).
[354] Fielding, Henry: Complete Works (ed. Roscoe), p. 632.
[355] The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (ed. Barbauld), vol. II, pp. 101-05.