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1. Southam, "Criticism, 1870-1940", The Jane Austen Companion, 102.
2. Lascelles, 2; for detail on "lower fringes", see Collins, ix-x.
3. Lascelles, 4-5; MacDonagh, 110-28; Honan, 79, 183-85; Tomalin, 66-68.
4. Litz, 3-14; Grundy, "Jane Austen and Literary Traditions", The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 192-93; Waldron, "Critical Responses, Early", Jane Austen in Context, p.83, 89-90; Duffy, "Criticism, 1814-1870", The Jane Austen Companion, 93-94. Litz, 142.
5. MacDonagh, 66-75; Collins, 160-161.
6. Honan, 124-27; Trott, "Critical Responses, 1830-1970", Jane Austen in Context, 92.
7. Fergus, "Biography", Jane Austen in Context, 3-4.
8. Le Faye, "Letters", Jane Austen in Context, 33.
9. Le Faye, A Family Record, 270; Nokes, 1.
10. Le Faye, A Family Record, 279.
11. Fergus, "Biography", Jane Austen in Context, 3-4. Honan, 29-30.
12. Honan, 11-14; Tucker, "Jane Austen's Family", The Jane Austen Companion, 143.
13. Tomalin, 6, 13-16, 147-51, 170-71; Greene, "Jane Austen and the Peerage", Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays, 156-57; Fergus, "Biography", Jane Austen in Context, 5-6; Collins, 10-11.
14. Irene Collins estimates that when George Austen took up his duties as rector in 1764, Steventon comprised no more than about thirty families. Collins, 86.
15. Honan, 14, 17-18; Collins, 54.
16. Fergus, "Biography", 3; Tomalin, 142; Honan, 23, 119.
17. MacDonagh, 50-51; Honan, 24, 246; Collins, 17.
18. Le Faye, Family Record, 22.
19. Tucker, "Jane Austen's Family", 147; Le Faye, Family Record, 43-44.
20. Le Faye, Family Record, 20.
21. Le Faye, Family Record, 27.
22. Tomalin, 7-9; Honan, 21-22; Collins, 86; Le Faye, Family Record, 19. Le Faye and Collins add that the Austens followed this custom for all of their children.
23. Le Faye, Family Record, 47-49; Collins, 35, 133.
24. Tomalin, 9-10, 26, 33-38, 42-43; Le Faye, Family Record, 52; Collins, 133-134.
25. Le Faye, "Chronology", 2-3; Grundy, "Jane Austen and Literary Traditions", 190-91; Tomalin, 28-29, 33-43, 66-67; Honan, 31-34; Lascelles, 7-8. Irene Collins believes that Austen "used some of the same school books as the boys" her father tutored. Collins, 42.