(8) Mrs. .  Stephen Allen, a widow, of Lynn.  She was married to Dr. Burney (not yet Doctor, however) in October, 1767.  His first wife died on the 28th of September, 1761.-Ed.

(9) There is some difficulty here as to the chronology.  “This sacrifice,” says the editor of “The Diary,” “was made in the young authoress’s fifteenth year.”  This could not be; for the sacrifice was the effect, according to the editor’s own showing of the remonstrances of the second Mrs. Burney; and Frances was in her sixteenth year when her father’s second marriage took place.

(10) Chesington, lying between Kingston and Epsom.-Ed.

(11) The picture drawn by Macaulay of Mr. Crisp’s wounded vanity and consequent misanthropy is absurdly overcharged.  In the first place, bis play of “Virginia,” which was first produced at Drury Lane on the 25th of February, 1754, actually achieved something like a suc`es d’estime.  It ran eleven nights, no contemptible run for those days ; was revived both at Drury Lane and at Covent Garden; was printed and reprinted; and all this all in his own lifetime.  It had, in fact, at least as much success as it deserved, though, doubtless, too little to satisfy the ambition of its author.  In the second place, there is absolutely no evidence whatever that his life was long embittered by disappointment connected with his tragedy.  It is clear, from Madame D’Arblay’s “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” that Mr. Crisp’s retirement to Chesington, many years after the production of “Virginia,” was mainly due to a straitened income and the gout.  Nor was his seclusion unenlivened by friendship.  The Burneys, in particular, visited him from time to time; and Fanny has left us descriptions of scenes of almost uproarious gaiety, enacted at Chesington by this gloomy recluse and his young friends.  But we shall hear more of Chesington and its inmates hereafter-ed.

(12) Scarcely, we think; when her fame was at its height, Fanny Burney received no more than 250 pounds for her second novel, “Cecilia.”  See the “Early Diary,” vol. ii. p. 307.-Ed,

(13) Christopher Anstey, the author of that amusing and witty poetical satire, the “New Bath Guide."-Ed.

(14) John Wilson Croker.-Ed.

(15) Richard Cumberland’s fame as playwright and novelist can hardly be said to have survived to the present day.  Sheridan caricatured him as Sir Fretful Plagiary, in the “Critic.”  We shall meet with him hereafter in “The Diary."-Ed.

(16) See note ante, p. xxiv.

(17) “Probationary Odes for the Laureateship,” a volume of lively satirical verse published after the appointment of Sir Thomas Warton to that office on the death of William Whitehead, in 1785.-Ed.

(18) See “Cecilia,” Book V. chap. 6.-Ed.

(19) In “Cecilia."-Ed.

(20) The “Mr. Fairly” of “The Diary."-Ed. (21) Macaulay is mistaken.  Fanny did receive the gown, a “lilac tabby,” and wore it on the princess royal’s birthday, September 29, 1786.-Ed.