[283] Mrs. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), née Ward, author of the Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)—T.
[284] Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825), née Aiken, author of Evenings at Horne, etc.—T.
[285] Maria Edgeworth (1766-1849), author of Moral Tales, Castle Rackrent, Tales of Fashionable Life, etc., etc.—T.
[286] Madame Fanny d'Arblay (1752-1840), née Burney, author of Evelina (1778), Cecilia, and an interesting Diary and Letters.—T.
[287] Florio's Montaigne, Booke III. chap. IX.: Of Vanitie.—T.
[288] Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) published his tragedy of Goetz von Berlichingen in 1773; Sir Walter Scott's translation appeared in 1799.—T.
[289] William Cowper (1731-1800), author of the Task.—T.
[290] Robert Burns (1759-1796), the Ayrshire ploughman-poet.—T.
[291] Thomas Moore (1779-1852), the popular Irish poet, had published his translation of Anacreon at the time of which Chateaubriand writes. His Irish Melodies began to appear in 1807, and Lalla Rookh was published in 1817.—T.
[292] Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) had published his Pleasures of Hope in 1799.—T.