A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
intellectual salon of Lord and Lady Holland (Elizabeth and Henry Fox),
at Holland House.
113 ‘Catena Patrum’: literally, ‘chain of fathers’, list of authorities.
finely written: Scott wrote ‘very finely written’.
114 list of criticisms: for the ‘Opinions of Mansfield Park’ and ‘Opinions of
Emma’, collections of comments with their authors, gathered and transcribed
by JA, see Minor Works, 431–9. They were first printed, in part
and less accurately, in Life & Letters, 328–32. The manuscripts, in JA’s
hand, are now in the British Library.
‘Quot homines, tot sententiæ’: ‘as many opinions as there are men’, Terence,
Phormio, 454.
115 a long letter of his sister’s: this is the letter to Martha Lloyd, Frank
Austen’s second wife, sent to the American autograph hunter Susan
Quincy. It is included in Ed.2 of the Memoir, at p. 53 above, thanks to
Susan Quincy, who returned a copy of it to JEAL. For the exchange of
correspondence between the Boston Quincys and Frank Austen, see note
to p. 53.
117 ‘Northanger Abbey’ in 1798: according to Cassandra’s memorandum, it
was ‘written about the years 98 & 99’. See note to p. 44 above.
118 merely took a likeness of that actor: Joshua Reynolds (see note to p. 90
above). He painted several portraits of his friend the actor David Garrick,
but the more allegorical representation, ‘Garrick between Tragedy
and Comedy’, was exhibited in 1762. Interestingly, Reynolds considered
the same distinction in an address to the Royal Academy in 1786 (Discourse
13), where he contrasts ‘all the truth of the camera obscura’ and
truth as ‘represented by a great artist’, interpreted and mediated, that is,
by the imagination (Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, ed. Robert R.
Wark (1975), 237).
drawn by Miss Mitford: see note to p. 13 above. ‘The Talking Gentleman’,
like ‘The Talking Lady’, ‘The Touchy Lady’, and ‘A Quiet Gentlewoman’,
is a character sketch from Our Village.
A reviewer in the ‘Quarterly’: this is Walter Scott, in his unsigned review
of E, Quarterly Review, 14 (Oct. 1815), 194, where he writes: ‘A friend of
ours, whom the author never saw or heard of, was at once recognized by
his own family as the original of Mr. Bennet, and we do not know if he
has yet got rid of the nickname.’
by a friend: in October 1869 JEAL received a letter from the Revd G. D.
Boyle, vicar of Kidderminster, with an account of a Mrs Barrett, now
dead, who he claimed had, in her younger days, known and corresponded
with JA. JEAL here includes extracts from Boyle’s letter in which he
apparently quotes the sentiments of JA as remembered by Mrs Barrett.
(See the Appendix for the letter, from a transcript held in the NPG,
RWC/HH, fos. 26–9.)
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