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Notes 301 Dedication. Lady Camden. Elizabeth, daughter and eventually sole heir of Nicholas Jeffreys, married Charles Pratt, first earl of Camden (1714–1794), on October 4, 1749; she died on December 10, 1779. Charles Pratt was a British jurist (Cockaygne’s Peerage 500). “Appointed (1761) chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned wide popularity as a result of his ruling in Entick v. Carrington (1763), where he pronounced against the legality of the general warrant under which John Wilkes was prosecuted. He became lord chancellor in 1766, but his constant denunciation of the government’s policy toward the American colonists and opposition to the taxes imposed on them resulted in his dismissal (1770). He served as president of the council under the marquess of Rockingham (1782–83) and under William Pitt (1784–94). In 1786 he was created Earl Camden. His lifelong fight against the existing definition of libel culminated in the passage of Fox’s Libel Act of 1792. Camden’s son, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, 1759–1840, was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1794–98). His repressive policies there were a major factor in the outbreak of the 1798 revolution. He later served as secretary of war (1804–5) and president of the council (1805–6 and 1807–12). He was created marquess in 1812” (Columbia Encyclopedia, 1994). The elder Lord and Lady Camden appear in Hannah More’s letters and attended the trial of the duchess of Beaufort . Lord Camden apparently had an affair with Lady Fitzgerald; the duchess of Devonshire also attended this trial. p. 56. “how he passes the ‘time there’”; see letter 1. p. 58. “ I am not in haste to wed,” Walpole states: Alexander Radcliffe (fl. 1669–1696), “Phillis to Demophoon,” Ovid Travestie, A Burlesque Upon Ovid’s Epistles, quoted in The Works of Alexander Radcliffe (1696), with an introduction by Ken Robinson (New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1981), p. 12. “I wish to God that very day we met,/that into Gaol I had been thrown for debt:/Then if I’d ask’d the Question—you’d have said/Thank you, forsooth, I’m not in haste to Wed.” The quotation is also relevant to Emma, who might 302 Notes not have married Walpole had she known he would abandon her when she became pregnant and leave her to raise her child in squalor. Shakespeare makes use of the phrase twice in Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio (Katharina’s suitor) says, “My businesse asketh haste, /And everre day I cannot come to woo” (1:i); Katharina says, in Act 3: “Who woo’d in haste and means to wed at leisure” (3:2:8–10). Obviously, Emma is the opposite of Katharina. p. 55. “Cotillons and Allemands”; two late eighteenth century dances. A cotillon is a name given to several French dances, sometimes used instead of the term quadrilles (OED). An allemande is a name given to various German dances. The gentleman turns his partner, as in American square or country dancing; an allemande can be done with either hand, with the “left hand around with your corner” figure; Handel wrote several of these (OED). “These outlandish heathen Allemandes and Cotillons are quite beyond me!” a character says in Sheridan’s Rivals (III, v). Georgiana was a patroness of dance in eighteenth-century England in whose honor Gaetano Apollino Baldassare Vestris (1729–1808) introduced the Devonshire minuet. p. 59. Sunbury is in Dorsetshire, a county in southwestern England, bordered by the English Channel (south); the counties of Devon and Hampshire (West and East), and by Somerset and Wiltshire (north) (in Dorsetshire, see p. 59); other locations in the novel include Newark, in the county of Nottinghamshire, central England. Burton, The Grove, Spring Park, Milfield are unspecified, but Rose-Court is in Yorkshire. p. 61. “Euphemia,” wife of Justin I. Euphemia, was the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian and wife of the Western Roman Emperor Anthemius. p. 63. “the sweet variety that’s in her”: The phrase, “sweet variety,” appears in a number of poems, of which the following, from Granville’s “The Progress of Beauty” is only one example: “some yield, some suffer Rapes, Invaded, or deceiv’d, not one escapes/The Wife, tho’ a bright Goddess, thus gives place / To mortal Concubines of fresh Embrace;/By such Examples were we taught to see/The Life and Soul of Love, is sweet Variety”; see George Granville, “The Progress of...

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