A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
1778–81, and was married to Eliza Lloyd, sister of Martha and of Mary,
Caroline’s mother. Mary Jane Fowle was Fulwar Fowle’s eldest daughter
and Caroline’s cousin.
a letter . . . dated Jany. 23 rd –1817: no. 149 in Letters. JEAL quotes this
extract in Memoir, Ed.2 (p. 127 above).
Mr. Leigh Perrot’s death: JA’s uncle died on 28 March 1817. For the
distress caused in the family by the arrangements of his will, see note to
p. 120 above.
179 one of the eminent physicians of the day: possibly Dr Matthew Baillie (see
note to p. 176 above).
APPENDIX
183 NPG, RWC/HH: a file of correspondence between Henry Hake of the
National Portrait Gallery and the Austen scholar R. W. Chapman, 1932–48.
This includes a set of typed sheets, sent by Chapman to Hake, comprising
copies of letters made by Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh of correspondence
addressed to JEAL around the time of the preparation and publication of
the Memoir. (‘Copies of parts of various letters addressed to JEAL about
the date of the composition & publication of the Memoir and preserved
by him in an album–– lent to me by RAAL 1926’ RWC.) JEAL’s album
containing the originals of these letters is now lost or destroyed. The file
consists of typed extracts of letters from Anna Lefroy (3 letters), Caroline
Austen (4 letters), Catherine Hubback (Frank Austen’s daughter) (2
letters), T. E. P. Lefroy (Tom Lefroy’s nephew and Jemima Lefroy’s
husband)(1 letter), Cassandra Esten Austen (Charles Austen’s daughter)
(1 letter), Elizabeth Rice (Edward Austen Knight’s daughter) (3 letters),
Louisa Knatchbull-Hugesson (Fanny Knatchbull’s daughter) (2 letters),
Revd G. D. Boyle of Kidderminster (1 letter). It is not possible to
determine whether errors or idiosyncratic features of orthography and
punctuation are original to the lost manuscripts or were introduced at the
typing stage.
Veneroni Grammars: Giovanni Veneroni, The Complete Italian Master
(1763) and further editions in 1778, 1798.
184 Lady Le Marchant: wife of Sir Denis Le Marchant and JEAL’s sister-inlaw.
See Memoir, 112–13, where JEAL records Sir Denis’s anecdotes of
famous opinions of JA’s novels.
Mrs George Austen: wife of Frank Austen’s son George. For Poll’s letter,
see note to Memoir, 44.
Cassandra Austen . . . Fanny: probably a reference to Charles Austen’s
daughters Cassandra and Frances. Another Fanny (Frank’s daughter
Frances Sophia) had letters from JA to Frank which she offered to JEAL
on condition that he did not publish them, but the daughter referred
to here as possibly objecting to handing over manuscript material is