seen, is improbable), and the other (_Northanger Abbey_) to a Bath
publisher; or that the publisher was really a London and not a Bath
publisher, and that the original Christian name of Catherine Morland was
Susan.[206]

FOOTNOTES:

[176] _Brabourne_, vol. ii. p. 1.

[177] Southey's _Letters from England, by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella_
(London, 1807); a lively account of this country, written in the guise
of letters assigned to a fictitious Spanish traveller.

[178] Lord Lansdowne, who put off being cured too long: his death
occurred about the time when he had proposed to go abroad.

[179] See Chapter XIX.

[180] Henry Austen and John Bridges.

[181] William Stanley Goddard, D.D., Head Master of Winchester,
1796-1809.

[182] The Rector of Godmersham.

[183] Anglicised form of French word for cup-and-ball--_bilboquet_.

[184] As to the move to Chawton.

[185] Richard Mant, D.D., Rector of All Saints, Southampton, and father
of Bishop Mant.

[186] She probably wrote _n_oonshine, a somewhat incorrect way of
spelling _nuncheon_ (luncheon). See _Sense and Sensibility_, c. xliv.

[187] See p. 225.

[188] His approaching marriage to Harriet Foote.

[189] Frank.

[190] The Rector of Chawton, who was a bachelor.

[191] Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Perrot.

[192] In 1806, the small living of Hampstead Marshall became vacant by
the death of old Mr. Fowle; and Lord Craven, the patron, looking round
for an 'honest man' who would hold the living for his nominee, offered
it to James Austen. He, however, felt scruples, grounded on the wording
of the bond of resignation, and declined the preferment.

[193] Her second marriage to General H. T. Montresor.

[194] A joking suggestion that Sir Brook Bridges was about to propose to
Cassandra.

[195] Sir John Moore's heroic twelve days' retreat to Corunna was now in
progress, and the battle was fought there on January 16. It is mentioned
again in the next two letters. The news on this occasion seems to have
come very quickly. The _St. Albans_ (under the command of Francis
Austen) was at Spithead, and there took charge of the disembarkation of
the remains of Sir John Moore's forces (_Sailor Brothers_, p. 203).

[196] _Margiana; or Widdrington Tower_, anon. 5 vols. 1808. For a
description of this romance see a reply by M. H. Dodds in _Notes and
Queries_, 11 S. vii. pp. 233-4.

[197] _Women, or Ida of Athens_, by Sydney Owenson (afterwards Lady
Morgan), published in 1809.