[228] A novel by Mrs. Brunton, published in 1810.
[229] We can give no explanation of the cousinship, if any existed, of Miss Beckford; Miss Payne may have descended from a sister of Jane's grandmother, Rebecca Austen, who married a man of that name.
[230] Perhaps in the battle of Albuera, May 16, 1811, which is described by Professor Oman (Cambridge Modern History, ix. 467) as 'the most bloody incident of the whole Peninsular War.'
[231] June 2. They ought to have waited for the King's birthday (June 4), which was considered the correct day to begin pease upon.
[232] The publisher was a Mr. T. Egerton, described as of the Military Library, Whitehall. He was therefore not the same as Henry Egerton who called in Sloane St. ([p. 247]) pace Mr. Austin Dobson in his Introduction to Sense and Sensibility (Macmillan, 1896).
[233] Sailor Brothers, p. 237 (letter from Jane to Frank). See [p. 272].
[234] We shall in future describe Jane's brother Edward as 'Mr. Knight,' and his children as 'Knight' with the Christian name prefixed; while the name 'Edward Austen' will be reserved for the author of the Memoir (James's eldest son), as he was always known in the family by that name.
[235] Memoir, p. 11.
[236] Cassandra was now staying at Steventon; these letters to her are mainly in the Memoir, but are supplemented and re-arranged from family MSS.
[237] Authors of the Rejected Addresses (1812).