A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
for a while that his life was in danger. It may have delayed the publication
of E, for which she was negotiating with Murray at the same time as
nursing her brother.
92 Carlton House: the magnificent London house of the Prince of Wales
(Prince Regent, 1811; George IV, 1820) from 1783. It was demolished in
1827.
at that time in the press: permission to dedicate E to the Prince Regent was
something of a two-edged compliment. JA hoped the knowledge might
speed up production at the printers, but saw no evidence for this. On the
other hand, she did become liable to costs which had to be paid out of
her own pocket–– an expensive red morocco presentation binding (see
Gilson, A8, p. 68).
Mr. Clarke . . . Dr. Clarke . . . Bishop Otter: the Prince Regent’s Librarian
and Domestic Chaplain was the Revd James Stanier Clarke (1767–1834).
His brother was Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822), a distinguished
traveller (Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa (6 vols., 1810–23) ). William
Otter (Bishop of Chichester in 1836) published Life and Remains of E. D.
Clarke in 1824.
Nov. 15, 1815: a copy of JA’s letter to J. S. Clarke descended to Charles
Austen and his family. It appears in Letters as no. 125(D), a draft preserved
by JA for her own reference.
93 Carlton House, Nov. 16, 1815: no. 125 in Letters, again descending from
Cassandra to Charles Austen and his family.
Beattie’s Minstrel . . . yet none knew why: from James Beattie, The Minstrel;
or, the Progress of Genius (1771–4), book 1, st. 16, slightly misquoted
by JEAL but not by Clarke in his original letter (see Letters, 297).
Goldsmith . . . ‘Tableau de Famille’: the reference is to the sentimental
portraits of clergymen in Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
(1766) and in the French translation (Nouveaux Tableaux de Famille, ou la
vie d’un pauvre ministre de village allemand et ses enfants (1803) ) of August
Lafontaine, Leben eines armes Landpredigers (1801).
94 no man’s enemy but his own: in the comic ‘Plan of a Novel, according to
hints from various quarters’, which JA drew up in 1816 as a direct consequence
of her correspondence with J. S. Clarke, she there proposes to
describe ‘a Clergyman, one who after having lived much in the World had
retired from it . . . of a very literary turn, an Enthusiast in Literature,
nobody’s Enemy but his own . . . ’ (Minor Works, 428–9). As she must
have known when mimicking Clarke, his smugly self-referential phrase
(‘no man’s enemy but his own’) is filched from Henry Fielding, Tom
Jones, book 4, ch. 5, where it is a description of the hero. (For the verbal
closeness of the ‘Plan’ and Clarke’s letters, see notes to pp. 97–9 below.)
Dec. 11: no. 132(D) in Letters, again part of Cassandra Austen’s bequest
to her brother Charles.