A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
Austens’ neighbours at Deane House. He had joined the Royal Marines
and in 1797 married Sarah Scott, ‘a girl of apparently doubtful
reputation’ (Letters, 533).
52 Marcau: JA wrote ‘Marcou’ (Letters, 55). The islands of St Marcouf off
the French coast at Normandy, then occupied by British forces.
53 Mr. Heathcote: See JEAL’s note at p. 55.
Lord Portsmouth’s ball: see JEAL’s note at p. 54.
Sweep: the curved drive leading to the house.
maple: JA wrote ‘Maypole’, which makes better sense (Letters, 57).
Miss Lloyd: Martha Lloyd (1765–1843), eldest daughter of the Revd
Nowis (or Noyes) Lloyd and his wife, and a close friend of the Austens.
She became part of their household in 1805, living with them at Bath,
Southampton, and Chawton. In 1828 she married JA’s brother Frank as
his second wife. The letter to Martha Lloyd is no. 26 in Letters, and it
recapitulates many of the details in that to Cassandra of four days earlier.
It remained in Frank Austen’s possession after Martha’s death and was
given by him to an autograph hunter, Eliza Susan Quincy, of Boston,
Mass., in 1852. She supplied JEAL with a copy for Ed.2 of the Memoir.
In Chapter 9 below, JEAL includes under ‘Opinions of American Readers’
the letter from Susan Quincy to Frank Austen which elicited the sending
of JA’s letter to Martha to America. (See M. A. DeWolfe Howe, ‘A Jane
Austen Letter With Other “Janeana” From an Old Book of Autographs’,
Yale Review, 15 (1925–6), 319–35, for fuller details of the correspondence
between Frank Austen and Susan Quincy. In sending the autograph,
Frank wrote: ‘I scarcely need observe that there never was the remotest
idea of its being published’ (ibid. 322). See, too, Farnell Parsons, ‘The
Quincys and the Austens: A Cordial Connection’, Jane Austen Society
Report (2000), 49–51.)
54 Ibthorp: JA writes here and elsewhere Ibthrop (Letters, 58), giving some
indication of the pronunciation. It was Martha’s home until 1805, and
Cassandra and Jane were frequent guests there.
Manydown: the home of other close friends, the Bigg-Wither family, at
Wootton St Lawrence, six miles from Steventon. Catherine and Alethea
Bigg were particular friends of JA, and their younger brother Harris
Bigg-Wither was to propose to her in 1802 (see note to p. 29 above).
55 Henry’s History of England: Robert Henry, History of Great Britain (6
vols., 1771–93).
desultory: JA wrote ‘disultary’ (Letters, 59).
56 battle of Trafalgar: October 1805, when the British fleet under Lord
Nelson defeated the French and Spanish. Frank Austen wrote to his
fiancée, Mary Gibson, of his disappointment at missing the action (Sailor
Brothers, 155).
My Dear Cassandra: written from Manydown, the home of JA’s friends
Catherine and Alethea Bigg, 11 February 1801. This is an extract only