A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes
in them seem to have caused his nephew and nieces some embarrassment.
See Memoir, 130 and note for further details.
191 a very great gain: Caroline is referring to the expansion of Memoir, ch. 6
in Ed.2, to include two letters from JA recording visits to London in 1813
and 1814. See pp. 86–9 above.
Charlotte Craven: Charlotte Elizabeth Craven (1798–1877), mentioned in
Letters, 210–11 and 321, and in Memoir, 87.
Catherine Hubback: Frank Austen’s fourth daughter and a novelist.
Mr Withers proposal: Harris Bigg-Wither, younger brother of Catherine
and Alethea Bigg of Manydown Park. See Memoir, 29 and note.
Dr Blackall: the Revd Dr Samuel Blackall (1771–1842), Fellow of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, introduced to JA by Mrs Lefroy, at
Christmas 1797, in the hopes of his replacing Tom Lefroy in her affections.
JA found him pompous and loud and was unimpressed. (See Letters,
19 and 216.) The story of his interest in their aunt, handed down by
Cassandra Austen, seems to have been confused in the minds of the next
generation with Cassandra’s other story of the seaside romance cut short
so tragically by death. There is no evidence that JA was at all attached to
Dr Blackall. See Memoir, 29.
192 Mr. Clarke: the Revd James Stanier Clarke, the Prince Regent’s Librarian.
See note to p. 97 above, which explains the ‘mercy’ JEAL showed to
his memory.
The portrait: the steel-engraved portrait of JA, derived from a sketch by
Cassandra Austen, which formed the frontispiece to the first edition of
the Memoir. See note to p. 70 above.
193 Her groves of green myrtle: For identification of the songs, see Deirdre Le
Faye, ‘Three Missing Jane Austen Songs’, Notes and Queries, 244 (1999),
454–5.
Rev. F. W. Fowle: Fulwar William Fowle (1791–1876) was the eldest son
of Fulwar Craven Fowle, a one-time pupil of Jane Austen’s father and
brother of Tom Fowle who was engaged to Cassandra. See Fam. Rec.,
147, where F. W. Fowle’s description of Jane’s appearance, as remembered
in 1838, is quoted, from Kathleen Tillotson, ‘Jane Austen’, Times
Literary Supplement, 17 Sep. 1954, p. 591. Fulwar Fowle’s mother was
Eliza Lloyd, sister to Martha and Mary. Hence, James Edward, Caroline,
and Fulwar Fowle were cousins.
194 Marmion: by Walter Scott. See note to p. 72.
195 NPG, RWC/HH, fos. 26–9: for a transcript of the letter and an investigation
into the identity of Mrs Barrett and her relationship with JA, see
R. W. Chapman, ‘Jane Austen’s Friend Mrs Barrett’, Nineteenth-Century
Fiction, 4 (1949), 171–4; and Deirdre Le Faye, ‘Jane Austen’s Friend Mrs
Barrett Identified’, Notes and Queries, 244 (1999), 451–4, where the letter
is again reproduced. Le Faye identifies her as Ann Barrett, wife of an