[13] Charles Austen failed to do so in January 1799. See [p. 124].
[14] The description of Steventon is taken, almost entirely, from the Memoir, pp. 18-22.
[15] This was written nearly half a century ago, before the revival of mixed gardens.
[16] Her daughters seem to have looked upon this publicity of useful needlework with some suspicion. See letter from Lyme, September 14, 1804 ([p. 179]).
[17] These letters, hitherto unpublished, are inserted by the kind permission of Mr. J. G. Nicholson of Castlefield House, Sturton by Scawby, Lincolnshire.
[18] Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter.
[19] Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood, edited by F. J. Harvey Darton, p. 124.
[20] Records of a Girlhood, vol. i. p. 99. By Frances Ann Kemble. London, 1878.
[21] There are, we think, but two references to school in her surviving correspondence—namely, in a letter to Cassandra, dated September 1, 1796, where she remarks of her sister's letter: 'I could die of laughter at it, as they used to say at school'; and in another, dated May 20, 1813, where she describes a room at a school as being 'totally unschool-like.'
[22] In the same novel, Persuasion, Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove have brought back 'the usual stock of accomplishments' from a school at Exeter.