[354] See [p. 360]. Mrs. West was a farmer's wife who lived to the age of ninety-three, and left behind her eighteen volumes of novels, plays, and poetry.
[355] Miss Bigg's nephew, afterwards Sir William Heathcote.
[356] Henry Austen.
[357] The poem by Southey, who had lost his eldest son early in 1816. It has been already stated that Southey was a nephew of Mr. Hill.
[358] The watering-place is called 'Sanditon,' and this name has been given to the twelve chapters by the family.
[359] Memoir, p. 181.
[360] Mme. Bigeon had perhaps lost her savings in the crash that ended her master's banking business.
[361] We ought not to forget that he had just lost £10,000 in the bankruptcy of his nephew Henry.
[362] Memoir, p. 161.
[363] Memoir, p. 162.