A Memoir of Jane Austen

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finance minister. A prominent intellectual and political opponent of
Napoleon, she wrote two major works, Corinne, ou l’Italie (Corinne, or
Italy (1807) ) and De l’Allemagne (On Germany (1810) ). In December
1808 JA can be found recommending an acquaintance to read ‘Corinna’
(Letters, 161). Subsequently, JA and de Staël shared a publisher in John
Murray.
Mons. Guizot: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874), conservative
French politician and historian and a prolific writer on general
topics. He became French minister of education and prime minister.
Susan Ferrier (1782–1854), an Edinburgh novelist whose first novel,
Marriage (1818), was her most popular.
‘Keepsake’ of 1825: R. W. Chapman notes that this should be 1835. A
popular annual miscellany, the issue for 1835 has at p. 27 the verses
printed here. They form one of the earliest expressions of the sentimental
enthusiasm that came to be known as ‘Janeism’. Their author was
George Howard, sixth Earl of Carlisle (1773–1848). Among the female
novelists compared unfavourably to JA are Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–
1821); Mary Brunton (1778–1818), already mentioned in this Memoir
(see p. 106); and Amelia Opie (1769–1853); Susan Ferrier (see preceding
note), was author of The Inheritance (1824).
112 admiration felt by Lord Macaulay: Macaulay’s sister, Lady Hannah Trevelyan
(1810–73), provided the information from her brother’s journal
entry of 1858, where he recorded: ‘If I could get materials I really would
write a short life of that wonderful woman, and raise a little money to put
up a monument to her in Winchester Cathedral.’ This subsequently finds
its way into his nephew George Otto Trevelyan’s biography, The Life and
Letters of Lord Macaulay (2 vols., 1876), ii. 466.
Sir Henry Holland: (1788–1873), fashionable London physician, doctor
to Queen Victoria, and cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell. He was unrelated to
Henry Fox, third Lord Holland, here described. See Sir Henry Holland,
Bart., Recollections of Past Life (1872), 231 n.
Sir Denis Le Marchant: (1795–1874), politician, had married in 1835
Sarah Eliza Smith, sister of JEAL’s wife Emma.
Mr. Whewell: William Whewell (1795–1866), Professor of Moral Theology
at Cambridge, 1838–55, and Master of Trinity College from 1841
to his death.
113 Lord Lansdowne: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, third Marquis of
Lansdowne, referred to at p. 66 above. In his edition of the Letters of Jane
Austen (1884), i. 79, Edward, Lord Brabourne, Fanny Knight’s son,
records on the authority of his aunt Louisa Knight, now Lady Hill, that
Lord Lansdowne was ‘grieved and affected’ to hear of JA’s death.
Sydney Smith: (1771–1845), essayist and wit, one of the founders, in 1802,
of the Edinburgh Review, a hugely influential periodical aimed at educating
middle-class taste. He was a member of the great Whig political and