alpole_, 450.

[9]
Lord Hervey's _Memoirs_, London, 1884, II, 143.

[10]
_The Unfortunate Princess_, 18, etc.

[11]
_Memoirs of a Certain Island_, II, 249. "Marama [the Duchess of
Marlborough] has been for many Years a Grandmother; but Age is the
smallest of her Imperfections:--She is of a Disposition so perverse and
peevish, so designing, mercenary, proud, cruel, and revengeful, that it
has been a matter of debate, if she were really Woman, or if some Fiend
had not assumed that Shape on purpose to affront the Sex, and fright
Mankind from Marriage."

[12]
J. Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, III, 649, records the tradition that
Chapman was the publisher of Mrs. Haywood's _Utopia_.

[13]
Anne Mason, formerly Lady Macclesfield, and the Earl of Rivers, whom
Savage claimed as his father.

[14]
She had a way of rechristening her friends by romantic titles. See her
poem, "To Mr. Walter Bowman ... Occasion'd by his objecting against my
giving the Name of Hillarius to Aaron Hill, Esq."

[15]
_Memoirs of a Certain Island_, I, 43-7 condensed.

[16]
For an account of Clio see an article by Bolton Corney, "James Thomson
and David Mallet," _Athenaeum_, II, 78, 1859. And Miss Dorothy Brewster,
_Aaron Hill_, 188. Her unsavory biography entitled _Clio, or a Secret
History of the Amours of Mrs. S-n--m_, was still known at the time of
_Polly Honeycombe_, 1760.

[17]
_The Authors of the Town; a Satire. Inscribed to the Author of the
Universal Passion_. For J. Roberts, 1725. A number of lines from this
poem appear later in Savage's "On False Historians," _Poems_ (Cooke's
ed.), II, 189.

[18]
_Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 4.

[19]
Compare the picture of Gloatitia, for instance, with the following of a
lady in _La Belle Assemblee_, I, 22. "To form any Idea of what she was,
one must imagine all that can be conceived of Perfection--the most
blooming Youth, the most delicate Complection, Eyes that had in them all
the Fire of Wit, and Tenderness of Love, a Shape easy, and fine
proportion'd Limbs; and to all this, a thousand unutterable Graces
accompanying every Air and little Motion."

[20]
Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, 221. _Bath-Intrigues_ was
included in Mrs. Haywood's Works, 1727. Another work contained in the
same two volumes, _The Perplex'd Duchess; or, Treachery Rewarded: Being
some Memoirs of the Court of Malfy. In a Letter from a Sicilian
Nobleman, who had his Residenc