e there, to his Friend in London_ (1728),
may be a scandal novel, though the title suggests a reworking of
Webster's _Duchess of Malfi_. I have not seen the book.

[21]
Ascribed to Mrs. Haywood in the advertisements of her additional
_Works_, 1727. The B.M. copy, catalogued under "Ariel," contains only a
fragment of 24 pages.

[22]
Miss M.P. Conant, _The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth
Century (1908), passim._

[23]
The "key" is almost the sole contribution to Mrs. Haywood's bibliography
in Bohn's Lowndes. Most of the personages mentioned are described in the
notes of John Wilson Croker's _Letters to and from the Countess of
Suffolk_ (1824).

[24]
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. by F. Elrington Ball (1913),
Vol. IV, 264, 266. The Countess of Suffolk, in a playful attack on
Swift, wrote (25 Sept. 1731) ... "I should not have despaired, that ...
this Irish patriot ... should have closed the scene under suspicions of
having a violent passion for Mrs. Barber, and Lady M---- [Montagu] or
Mrs. Haywood have writ the progress of it." In reply Swift wrote (26
Oct. 1731) that he could not guess who was intended by Lady M---- and
that he had heard Mrs. Haywood characterized in the terms quoted above.

[25]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, III, 279.

CHAPTER V

THE HEROINE OF "THE DUNCIAD"

Mr. Pope's devious efforts to make the gratification of his personal
animosities seem due to public-spirited indignation have been generally
exposed. Beside the overwhelming desire to spite Theobald for his
presumption in publishing "Shakespeare Restored" the aggrieved poet was
actuated by numerous petty grudges against the inhabitants of Grub
Street, all of which he masked behind a pretence of righteous zeal.
According to the official explanation "The Dunciad" was composed with
the most laudable motive of damaging those writers of "abusive
falsehoods and scurrilities" who "had aspersed almost all the great
characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and
names being utterly secret and obscure." He intended to seize the
"opportunity of doing some good, by detecting and dragging into light
these common enemies of mankind; since to invalidate this universal
slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of
it. He was not without hopes, that by manifesting the dulness of those
who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not
find their acc