A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
Lady Morley was a witty woman, with literary interests, and for a time
was thought to be the authoress of both S&S and P&P. It is not known
how JA became acquainted with her, but the likeliest explanation is that it
was through her brother Henry’s London society contacts. See W. A. W.
Jarvis, ‘Jane Austen and the Countess of Morley’, Jane Austen Society
Report (1986), 6–14. In Ed.1 this interchange of letters was placed at the
end of Chapter 6. They are nos. 134(A) and 134(D) in Letters, and were
bequeathed by Cassandra to Charles Austen. JA had sent the Countess
one of the twelve presentation copies of E. See Letters, 302, where she
jokes to Cassandra of her ‘near Connections–– beginning with the P.R. &
ending with Countess Morley’. For the Countess’s less favourable opinion
of E, as expressed to her sister-in-law, see Fam. Rec., 208.
Woodhouse family . . . Norrises: Emma Woodhouse and her father in E;
the Bennets in P&P; the Bertrams and Mrs Norris in MP.
104 Archbishop Whately . . . review of Madame D’Arblay’s: for Richard
Whately, see note to p. 28 above. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–
59), politician, essayist, and historian, and early JA enthusiast. He associates
her talent for characterization with that of Shakespeare in his
unsigned article, ‘Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay’, Edinburgh
Review, 76 (Jan. 1843), 523–70 (at pp. 561–2). His claim is taken up and
repeated by several major mid-century critics, including G. H. Lewes
and Julia Kavanagh.
105 Horace’s ‘satis est Equitem mihi plaudere’: Horace, Satires, I. x. line 76: ‘It
is enough if the knights applaud me’ (part of Horace’s defence of an
exclusive readership).
the following letter to Mr. Cadell: Thomas Cadell, of the reputable London
firm Cadell and Davies, well established as novel publishers. In her letter
of 1 April [1869?] offering materials to her brother for the Memoir, Caroline
Austen provides a copy of the letter to Cadell, observing shrewdly: ‘I
do not know which novel he would have sent–– The letter does not do
much credit to the tact or courtesy of our good Grandfather for Cadell
was a great man in his day, and it is not surprising that he should have
refused the favor so offered from an unknown–– but the circumstance may
be worth noting, especially as we have so few incidents to produce. At a
sale of Cadell’s papers &c Tom Lefroy picked up the original letter–– and
Jemima [Anna Lefroy’s daughter] copied it for me–– ’ (see the Appendix
p. 185, for a longer extract from this letter). The manuscript of JA’s
father’s letter is now in St John’s College Library, Oxford.
author’s risk . . . the property of it: that is, publication on commission or
through the author’s sale of the copyright to the publisher. For JA’s
preferred method of publication, see note to p. 100 above. Fanny Burney’s
Evelina (1776) had been an unexpected runaway success; it is also
mentioned in order to give some idea of the length of the offered manuscript
and therefore the likely cost (in paper, type-setting, etc.) involved
in publishing it.