_The Novelist's Magazine_, XIII, 23. Quoted by
Austin Dobson, _Op. cit._, 100.

[7]
Dedication of _The Fatal Secret_.

[8]
_The Novelist's Magazine_, XIII, 106. Quoted by W. Forsyth, _Novels and
Novelists of the Eighteenth Century_ (1871), 211.

[9]
W. Raleigh, _The English Novel_ (Fifth edition, 1910), 139.

[10]
J.C. Dunlop, _History of Prose Fiction_, edited by H. Wilson, II, 568.

[11]
_Monthly Review_, V, 393, October, 1751.

[12]
_Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 392.

[13]
_Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 457.

[14]
_Notes and Queries_, Series VIII, IX, 366. In Smollett's _Ferdinand
Count Fathom_, Chap. XXXIX, Captain Miniken recommends as "modern
authors that are worth reading" the _Adventures of Loveill, Lady Frail,
Bampfylde Moore Carew, Young Scarron_, and _Miss Betsy Thoughtless_. See
also A.L. Barbauld, _Correspondence of Samuel Richardson_ (1804), IV,
55-6, and the _Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs.
Delaney_ (1861), First series, III, 79, 214.

[15]
J.G. Lockhart, _Life of Scott_, Everyman edition, 34. Coleridge's
_Letters_, I, 368.

[16]
W. Scott, _Old Mortality_, Conclusion. Goethe's _Werke_ (E. Schmidt,
Leipsig, 1910), III, 17.

[17]
That the _Monthly's_ review of _Betsy Thoughtless_, complaining of that
novel's lack of "those entertaining introductory chapters, and
digressive essays, which distinguish the works of a _Fielding_, a
_Smollett_, or the author of _Pompey_ the little," rankled in the fair
novelist's memory is illustrated by a retort in her next work, _Jemmy
and Jenny Jessamy_, III, Chap. XVIII, which "contains none of those
beautiful digressions, those remarks or reflections, which a certain
would-be critick pretends are so much distinguished in the writings of
his two favorite authors; yet it is to be hoped, will afford sufficient
to please all those who are willing to be pleased." For the review of
_Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy_, see _Monthly Review_, VIII, 77.

[18]
A possible return to scandal-mongering should be noted. _Letters from
the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 461. "You should have
given me a key to the Invisible Spy, particularly to the catalogue of
books in it. I know not whether the conjugal happiness of the D. of B.
[Duke of Bedford] is intended as a compliment or an irony."

[19]
_Gentleman's Magazine_, XXIV, 560, December 1754.

[20]
_Critical Review_,